Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

The paper investigates odor hedonics in 5XFAD Alzheimer's disease mice, finding prolonged odor investigation and altered preferences in females.

The paper investigates how vTT neurons in mice are tuned to different scenes during feeding behaviors, showing scene-specific firing patterns and top-down modulation.

This study formulates olfactory learning as a Bayesian optimization process and shows a computational model can identify odors from few observations and learn reward associations with a plausible neural architecture.

This study investigates the effect of odor enrichment on olfactory acuity in mice using two mirror-molecular pairs, finding no improvement in discrimination or detection abilities.

The paper compares functional connectivity in olfactory cortex between individuals with congenital anosmia and controls, finding no atypical connectivity despite lifelong olfactory sensory loss.

The paper identifies non-neuronal cell types in the olfactory system expressing SARS-CoV-2 entry genes, suggesting indirect mechanisms for COVID-19-associated anosmia.

The paper shows that antagonistic interactions between odors are common in olfactory sensory neurons of freely breathing mice, helping to normalize activity and reduce saturation in complex odor mixtures.

This study compares the effects of optogenetic manipulation of cholinergic and GABAergic basal forebrain projections on mitral/tufted cell activity in the olfactory bulb, revealing input-dependent modulation.

The paper investigates how odor-reward associations are represented in brain regions and how these representations influence behavior during learning.

The paper investigates how repeated odor sampling affects odor representations in mitral and tufted cells in the mouse olfactory bulb, finding differential impacts between cell types.

The paper uses a computational model to study how interglomerular inhibitory networks in the mouse olfactory bulb shape odor representations based on connectivity schemes and sensory input.

The paper uses synthetic odors to uncover how neural activity patterns relate to olfactory perception by analyzing spatial and temporal coding.

The paper identifies two male-specific pheromones in Drosophila mojavensis subspecies and shows how they contribute to sexual isolation through conserved sensory pathways and differential interpretation.

This study shows SARS-CoV-2 infection causes rapid and severe damage to the olfactory epithelium in golden Syrian hamsters, primarily through infection of sustentacular cells and immune cell infiltration, leading to anosmia.

This study shows that injecting α-synuclein fibrils into the olfactory bulb of mice reduces odor detection sensitivity, detected by plethysmography but not buried pellet tests.

The paper studies chemosensory tuning in mouse accessory olfactory bulb external granule cells, finding their sparser tuning compared to mitral cells, suggesting distinct functional roles.

The paper investigates odor responses in mouse olfactory sensory neurons, finding inhibition, antagonism, and synergy at the peripheral stage.

The paper identifies bile acid-sensitive vomeronasal receptors in mice using a physiology-forward approach combining calcium imaging and RNA-seq.

The paper shows that mouse olfactory sensory neurons use acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) to detect acidic stimuli independently of type III adenylyl cyclase.

This study shows that the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON) is critical for context-dependent odor learning, while ventral hippocampus (vHC) lesions affect both olfactory and texture context learning.

This study shows that olfactory co-stimulation improves the localization of weak intranasal somatosensory stimuli when the stimuli are delivered to the same nostril.

The paper shows that interhemispheric connections in zebrafish olfactory bulbs enhance odor detection by modulating neural responses to pheromones in complex environments.

The paper uses SCAPE microscopy to study odor responses in mouse olfactory neurons, finding widespread receptor modulation in response to odor mixtures.

The paper investigates axonal branching patterns of olfactory receptor neurons in amphibians and challenges the unbranched axon concept as a universal vertebrate feature.

This paper introduces a non-invasive method to record neural activity from the human olfactory bulb using EEG, termed Electrobulbogram (EBG), which is reliable and localized to the OB.

The paper compares odor responses in medial and lateral glomeruli in the mouse olfactory bulb, finding that medial glomeruli show stronger respiration-linked calcium fluctuations.

The paper shows that the olfactory bulb's wiring diagram enables odor representation whitening by suppressing redundant responses through reciprocal inhibition.

The paper identifies molecular receptive ranges of olfactory glomeruli using machine learning and physiological measurements, revealing a chemical map underlying their arrangement.

This study shows that aversive learning increases the release probability of olfactory sensory neurons in mice, correlating with freezing behavior during fear retrieval.

This study adapts the novel-object recognition task to measure how C57BL/6J male mice allocate attention to objects labeled with female odour versus other odours or novel objects.