Olfactory receptor neuron responses coding for rapid odour sampling
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Coding of Odour Quality in Olfactory Receptor Neurons
Olfactory stimuli are complex chemical signals whose composition varies quantitatively and qualitatively in space and time. Olfactory receptor neurones (ORNs) can monitor these variations and convey raw data to the brain from which biologically meaningful information can be extracted. The primary purpose of this work is to investigate quantitatively how the qualitative properties of odours are ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Physiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0022-3751
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.203687