[HTML][HTML] Fast odour dynamics are encoded in the olfactory system and guide behaviour

T Ackels, A Erskine, D Dasgupta, AC Marin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Odours are transported in turbulent plumes, which result in rapid concentration fluctuations,
that contain rich information about the olfactory scenery, such as the composition and …

How to monitor breathing in laboratory rodents: a review of the current methods

J Grimaud, VN Murthy - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Accurately measuring respiration in laboratory rodents is essential for many fields of
research, including olfactory neuroscience, social behavior, learning and memory, and …

Complex neural representation of odour information in the olfactory bulb

A Li, X Rao, Y Zhou, D Restrepo - Acta physiologica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The most important task of the olfactory system is to generate a precise representation of
odour information under different brain and behavioural states. As the first processing stage …

Partial depletion of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra impairs olfaction and alters neural activity in the olfactory bulb

W Zhang, C Sun, Y Shao, Z Zhou, Y Hou, A Li - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Olfactory dysfunction is a major non-motor symptom that appears during the early stages of
Parkinson's Disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of …

Task-demand-dependent neural representation of odor information in the olfactory bulb and posterior piriform cortex

D Wang, P Liu, X Mao, Z Zhou, T Cao, J Xu… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
In awake rodents, the neural representation of olfactory information in the olfactory bulb is
largely dependent on brain state and behavioral context. Learning-modified neural plasticity …

Learning improves decoding of odor identity with phase-referenced oscillations in the olfactory bulb

J Losacco, D Ramirez-Gordillo, J Gilmer, D Restrepo - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Local field potential oscillations reflect temporally coordinated neuronal ensembles—
coupling distant brain regions, gating processing windows, and providing a reference for …

Leptin modulates olfactory discrimination and neural activity in the olfactory bulb

C Sun, K Tang, J Wu, H Xu, W Zhang, T Cao… - Acta …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Leptin is an important peptide hormone that regulates food intake and plays a crucial
role in modulating olfactory function. Although a few previous studies have investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] A transcriptional rheostat couples past activity to future sensory responses

T Tsukahara, DH Brann, SL Pashkovski, G Guitchounts… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Animals traversing different environments encounter both stable background stimuli and
novel cues, which are thought to be detected by primary sensory neurons and then …

Active sensing in a dynamic olfactory world

J Crimaldi, H Lei, A Schaefer, M Schmuker… - Journal of computational …, 2022 - Springer
This Perspective highlights the shift from the classic picture of olfaction as slow and static to
a view in which dynamics play a critical role at many levels of sensing and behavior …

Miniaturized fiber-coupled confocal fluorescence microscope with an electrowetting variable focus lens using no moving parts

BN Ozbay, JT Losacco, R Cormack, R Weir, VM Bright… - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We report a miniature, lightweight fiber-coupled confocal fluorescence microscope that
incorporates an electrowetting variable focus lens to provide axial scanning for full three …