Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32273438›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2020

Widespread receptor-driven modulation in peripheral olfactory coding.

Lu Xu, Wenze Li, Venkatakaushik Voleti, Dong-Jing Zou, Elizabeth M C Hillman, Stuart Firestein

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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64citing papers in PubMed
7.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

64 citing papers in PubMed, 168 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Recalibrating Olfactory Neuroscience to the Range of Naturally Occurring Odor Concentrations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  15. Design Principles From Natural Olfaction for Electronic Noses.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lu Xu *Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, 10027, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9697-9097
Wenze Li *Laboratory for Functional Optical Imaging, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, 10027, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5256-7787
Venkatakaushik VoletiLaboratory for Functional Optical Imaging, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, 10027, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0387-6599
Dong-Jing ZouDepartment of Biological Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
Elizabeth M C HillmanLaboratory for Functional Optical Imaging, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, 10027, USA. sjf24@columbia.edu elizabeth.hillman@columbia.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5511-1451
Stuart FiresteinDepartment of Biological Sciences, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, 10027, USA. sjf24@columbia.edu elizabeth.hillman@columbia.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1774-5853
Allen Institute for Brain Science · USCity University of New York · US

Funding

The perception of odor blends and mixtures: Modulation, Inhibition and Enhancement of Olfactory Receptors alters perception of complex blendsR01DC013553 · NIDCD · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI FIRESTEIN, STUART J · 2014 to 2024
$3.6M
SCAPE microscopy for high-speed 3D imaging of cellular function in behaving animals: Continued innovation, optimization, and disseminationUF1NS108213 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HILLMAN, ELIZABETH M. C. · 2018 to 2018
$3.5M
Flexible Tools for Pre-Clinical Studies to Answer Key Questions UnderlyingHeavy-Ion RadiotherapyU01CA236554 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BRENNER, DAVID JONATHAN, HILLMAN, ELIZABETH M. C. · 2019 to 2022
$2.6M
SCAPE microscopy for high-speed in-vivo volumetric microscopy in behaving organismsU01NS094296 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HILLMAN, ELIZABETH M. C. · 2015 to 2017
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA236554NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC013553NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS094296NINDS NIH HHS UF1 NS108213
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Olfactory responses to single odors have been well characterized but in reality we are continually presented with complex mixtures of odors. We performed high-throughput analysis of single-cell responses to odor blends using Swept Confocally Aligned Planar Excitation (SCAPE) microscopy of intact mouse olfactory epithelium, imaging ~10,000 olfactory sensory neurons in parallel. In large numbers of responding cells, mixtures of odors did not elicit a simple sum of the responses to individual components of the blend. Instead, many neurons exhibited either antagonism or enhancement of their response in the presence of another odor. All eight odors tested acted as both agonists and antagonists at different receptors. We propose that this peripheral modulation of responses increases the capacity of the olfactory system to distinguish complex odor mixtures.

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Identifiers

PMID32273438
PMCPMC7443284
OpenAlexW3015624413

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