Recently, modern neuroscience has made considerable progress in understanding how the
brain perceives, discriminates, and recognizes odorant molecules. This growing knowledge …

Recent progress in the studies of the olfactory system, especially in the molecular biological
studies, makes it one of the useful sensory model systems for understanding neural …

Projection neurons (PNs) in the locust antennal lobe exhibit odor-specific dynamic
responses. We studied a PN population, stimulated with five odorants and pulse durations …

According to the combinatorial receptor and glomerular codes for odors, the fine tuning of
the output level from each glomerulus is assumed to be important for information processing …

This chapter explains the theory and methods for the mapping of cytochrome oxidase activity
in the brain using quantitative histochemistry. Cytochrome oxidase catalyzes the electron …

Recent evidence emerging from several laboratories, integrated with new data obtained by
searching the genome databases, suggests that the area code hypothesis provides a good …

Interneurons in the olfactory bulb (OB) are generated not only in the developing embryo but
also throughout the postnatal life of mammals from neuronal precursor cells migrating from …

Three mouse olfactory receptors have been cloned and sequenced and were found to be
expressed in different zones of the olfactory epithelium. In situ hybridisation (ISH) results …

The activity of transcription factors modulates several neural pathways that mediate complex
behaviors. We describe here the role of the POU transcription factor UNC-86 in the olfactory …

Although synaptic functions of ionotropic glutamate receptors in the olfactory bulb have been
studied in vitro, their roles in pattern processing in the intact system remain controversial. We …