Possible use of phytochemicals for recovery from COVID-19-induced anosmia and ageusia

S Koyama, K Kondo, R Ueha, H Kashiwadani… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The year 2020 became the year of the outbreak of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which
escalated into a worldwide pandemic and continued into 2021. One of the unique symptoms …

Biological roles of lipocalins in chemical communication, reproduction, and regulation of microbiota

R Stopková, T Otčenášková, T Matějková… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Major evolutionary transitions were always accompanied by genetic remodelling of
phenotypic traits. For example, the vertebrate transition from water to land was accompanied …

[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 …

Sexually dimorphic architecture and function of a mechanosensory circuit in C. elegans

H Setty, Y Salzberg, S Karimi, E Berent-Barzel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
How sensory perception is processed by the two sexes of an organism is still only partially
understood. Despite some evidence for sexual dimorphism in auditory and olfactory …

The facets of olfactory learning

JK Reinert, I Fukunaga - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Volatile chemicals in the environment provide ethologically important information to many
animals. However, how animals learn to use this information is only beginning to be …

Sex steroid hormone synthesis, metabolism, and the effects on the mammalian olfactory system

T Abaffy, HY Lu, H Matsunami - Cell and tissue research, 2023 - Springer
Sex steroid hormones influence olfactory-mediated social behaviors, and it is generally
hypothesized that these effects result from circulating hormones and/or neurosteroids …

Acquisition of innate odor preference depends on spontaneous and experiential activities during critical period

Q Qiu, Y Wu, L Ma, W Xu, M Hills Jr, V Ramalingam… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Animals possess an inborn ability to recognize certain odors to avoid predators, seek food,
and find mates. Innate odor preference is thought to be genetically hardwired. Here we …

Pheromone perception in fish: mechanisms and modulation by internal status

JM Bowers, CY Li, CG Parker… - Integrative and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Pheromones are chemical signals that facilitate communication between animals, and most
animals use pheromones for reproduction and other forms of social behavior. The …

[HTML][HTML] A histological protocol for quantifying the birthrates of specific subtypes of olfactory sensory neurons in mice

K Hossain, M Smith, SW Santoro - STAR protocols, 2023 - Elsevier
Mammals typically have hundreds of distinct olfactory sensory neuron subtypes, each
defined by expression of a specific odorant receptor gene, which undergo neurogenesis …

[HTML][HTML] In mice, discrete odors can selectively promote the neurogenesis of sensory neuron subtypes that they stimulate

K Hossain, M Smith, SW Santoro - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In mammals, olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are born throughout life, presumably solely
to replace neurons lost via turnover or injury. This assumption follows from the hypothesis …