Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

The paper finds that body-odor similarity predicts better same-sex non-romantic dyadic interactions using electronic nose and human smell ratings.

This study investigates neural activation patterns in the olfactory epithelium of East African cichlids in response to odorants, revealing receptor-specific responses to amino acids and steroids.

The paper compares odor representation similarity across olfactory regions and finds that sparser activity in aPC and AON correlates with increased similarity despite fewer inputs from the OB.

This study investigates how larval zebrafish integrate binasal chemosensory inputs to guide avoidance behavior using microfluidics and brainwide imaging.

This study identifies nuclear architecture disruption as a mechanism underlying SARS-CoV-2 induced anosmia by analyzing human and hamster olfactory tissues.

This study examines olfactory network functional connectivity in Parkinson's disease subtypes, finding impaired connectivity in akinetic-rigid patients linked to worse clinical outcomes.

This study shows that the human olfactory bulb processes odor valence through gamma and beta activity, with negative odors triggering motor avoidance behavior.

The paper presents a Hebbian-type model of structural synaptic plasticity in the olfactory bulb that explains how learning enhances discriminability of similar stimuli while reducing that of dissimilar ones.

The paper shows stimulus-selective lateral signaling between olfactory receptor neurons enables parallel encoding of CO2 dynamics through distinct channel representations.

The paper identifies cell-type specific genes in olfactory bulb projection neurons using single-cell RNA-seq and validates them as Cre-driver markers for genetic labeling.

This study identifies disease-specific gene expression and protein secretion patterns in olfactory mucosa cells from Alzheimer's patients, revealing potential diagnostic and mechanistic insights.

The paper investigates the dynamics of glutamatergic input from sensory neurons to MT cells in the olfactory bulb and finds that these dynamics, rather than OB circuit mechanisms, explain the diversity in MT cell responses.

This study shows that HDB projections to the olfactory bulb modulate odor-evoked responses and are critical for olfactory-mediated habituation and discrimination behaviors.

The paper shows that women's attractiveness ratings and neural responses to male faces are influenced by male chemosensory signals, even when they cannot consciously detect the association.

This study investigates sex differences in brain activity evoked by chemo-signaling compounds in young adults, finding sexually dimorphic responses to pheromones but not to lavender.

This study shows that oxygen-functionalized soots reduce olfactory progenitor cells in mice, potentially affecting CSF drainage and linking air pollution to neurodegenerative disease risk.

The paper investigates how molecular complexity of odorants affects perception of odor mixtures as elemental or configural.

This paper shows that activating the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON) suppresses odor responses across different odors and concentrations, and inhibits mitral/tufted cells in the olfactory bulb.

This study shows that mouse mitral cells in the olfactory bulb flexibly represent odour categories based on task demands, with changes in response patterns following learning.

The paper clusters spatial gene expression profiles in the olfactory bulb mitral cell layer and identifies dorsoventral physiological differences.

The paper uses machine learning to predict olfactory receptor-odorant pairs and basal activity from sequence data, identifying key residues that determine selectivity and activity.

The paper examines structural brain changes in individuals with congenital olfactory loss, finding atrophy in olfactory sulci and increased volume in medial orbital gyri, suggesting differential plasticity in secondary vs. primary olfactory cortex.

The paper shows that recurrent circuitry in piriform cortex stabilizes odor representations despite degraded input, supporting pattern completion in an associative network.

The paper demonstrates real-time detection of Ca2+ and cAMP signaling from olfactory receptors expressed in HEK293TN cells using fluorescent biosensors.

This study shows that Smad4 signaling is essential for the development, function, and circuit formation of basal vomeronasal sensory neurons.

This study shows that the olfactory tubercle, not the posterior piriform cortex, rapidly encodes reward category during odor-reward learning, preceding motor actions.

The paper shows that human olfactory receptor codes have a modular structure reflecting key olfactory features in odor perception.

This study shows that neuropeptide Y signaling in zebrafish modulates olfactory sensory neuron sensitivity to food-related cues based on nutritional state.

The paper shows that the optimal odor-receptor interaction network is sparse and follows a log-normal distribution, enhancing decoding accuracy in olfactory systems.

The paper demonstrates that mammals can perceive temporal structure in odour stimuli at fast timescales, using a novel odour delivery system and behavioural experiments with mice.