The biological olfactory system is the sensory system responsible for the detection of the
chemical composition of the environment. Several attempts to mimic biological olfactory …

Remarkable advances in our understanding of olfactory perception have been made in
recent years, including the discovery of new mechanisms of olfactory signaling and new …

Vertebrates and insects have evolved complex repertoires of chemosensory receptors to
detect and distinguish odours. With a few exceptions, vertebrate chemosensory receptors …

The mammalian olfactory system senses an almost unlimited number of chemical stimuli
and initiates a process of neural recognition that influences nearly every aspect of life. This …

▪ Abstract Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) ion channels were first discovered in rod
photoreceptors, where they are responsible for the primary electrical signal of the …

Most vertebrate olfactory receptor neurons share a common G-protein–coupled pathway for
transducing the binding of odorant into depolarization. The depolarization involves 2 …

Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels are ion channels which are activated by the
binding of cGMP or cAMP. The channels are important cellular switches which transduce …

How are sights and sounds and smells converted into electrical signals in a form that can be
interpreted by the nervous system? Although this process, called sensory transduction …

Sensory perception requires accurate encoding of stimulus information by sensory receptor
cells. We identified NCKX4, a potassium-dependent Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, as being …

Cyclic nucleotide-regulated cation channels are ion channels whose activation is regulated
by the direct binding of cAMP or cGMP to the channel protein. Two structurally related …