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Innate versus learned odour processing in the mouse olfactory bulb.
Nature - 22 Nov 2007
Kobayakawa Ko, Kobayakawa Reiko, Matsumoto Hideyuki, Oka Yuichiro, Imai Takeshi, Ikawa Masahito, Okabe Masaru, Ikeda Toshio, Itohara Shigeyoshi, Kikusui Takefumi, Mori Kensaku, Sakano Hitoshi
Abstract excerpt
The mammalian olfactory system mediates various responses, including aversive behaviours to spoiled foods and fear responses to predator odours. In the olfactory bulb, each glomerulus represents a single species of odorant receptor. Because a single odorant can interact with several different receptor species, the odour information received in the olfactory epithelium is converted to a topographical map of...
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