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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015

Synaptic clusters function as odor operators in the olfactory bulb.

Michele Migliore, Francesco Cavarretta, Addolorata Marasco, Eleonora Tulumello, Michael L Hines, Gordon M Shepherd

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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6 authors.

Michele MiglioreDepartment of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520; Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, 90146 Palermo, Italy; michele.migliore@cnr.it.
Francesco CavarrettaInstitute of Biophysics, National Research Council, 90146 Palermo, Italy; Department of Mathematics "Federigo Enriques," University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy;
Addolorata MarascoDepartment of Mathematics and Applications "R. Caccioppoli," University of Naples Federico II, 80126 Naples, Italy.
Eleonora TulumelloInstitute of Biophysics, National Research Council, 90146 Palermo, Italy;
Michael L HinesDepartment of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520;
Gordon M ShepherdDepartment of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520;

Funding

COMPUTER METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL PROBLEMSR01NS011613 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MICHAEL L HINES, Robert A. McDougal · 1985 to 2026
$10.4M
SenseLab: Integration of Multidisciplinary Sensory DataR01DC009977 · NIDCD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HINES, MICHAEL L, MCDOUGAL, ROBERT A. · 2009 to 2018
$6.7M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009977NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC 00997701-06NINDS NIH HHS NS11613NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS011613
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How the olfactory bulb organizes and processes odor inputs through fundamental operations of its microcircuits is largely unknown. To gain new insight we focus on odor-activated synaptic clusters related to individual glomeruli, which we call glomerular units. Using a 3D model of mitral and granule cell interactions supported by experimental findings, combined with a matrix-based representation of glomerular operations, we identify the mechanisms for forming one or more glomerular units in response to a given odor, how and to what extent the glomerular units interfere or interact with each other during learning, their computational role within the olfactory bulb microcircuit, and how their actions can be formalized into a theoretical framework in which the olfactory bulb can be considered to contain "odor operators" unique to each individual. The results provide new and specific theoretical and experimentally testable predictions.

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OdorantsAlgorithmsAnimalsComputer SimulationModels, NeurologicalNerve NetOlfactory BulbSynapsesSynaptic Transmissiongranule cellsmitral cellsnetwork self-organizationodor codingolfactory bulb system

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PMID26100895
PMCPMC4500266

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