Olfactory receptor neuron

specification of neurons and glia, the growth and guidance of axons and dendrites, and the development and refinement of electrical and chemical synapses. In the central nervous system (CNS), stem cells reside throughout life in the forebrain, continuing to generate neurons and glia in the subventricular zone (SVZ) surrounding the lateral ventricle and in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. The SVZ is known to be the major site of Neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain. Throughout life…

The Effects of Mefloquine (an antimalarial pill) on Mice Cognitive and Deficits in Olfactory Bulb. Mena Mekail Introduction to Scientific Research December 8, 2015 Introduction Worldwide air travel has seen a great increase in recent years, in fact it is projected that 1.45 billion people are expected to travel by air in 2016 (Huang and Tatem 2013). The increase of travel rate from malaria free and endemic countries has led to the increase of antimalarial drug resistance consumption…

The SVZ is where the neurons of the olfactory bulb are made, and the hippocampus has been linked to learning and memory, making it the prime place for neural plasticity (Anderson, 2015). The hippocampus also seems to be the supplier of NSCs for the rest of the brain. This gives the brain…

Enzymes – free floating bodies which break down neurotransmitters * Synaptic vesicles – intra-cellular spheres which house neurotransmitters * Neurotransmitters * Released into neuro-synaptic cleft * Bind with post-synaptic receptors or pre-synaptic…

The first main system is the central nervous system which consists of the brain and the spinal cord. There are three main sections of the brain; the forebrain which contains the cerebrum and the parts of the diencephalon (the thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus most importantly), the midbrain which is a part of the brain stem, and the hindbrain which consists of the medulla oblongata, the pons, and the cerebellum. The cerebrum, the picture on the right hemisphere of the model’s brain, is the…

It is a system of tubes, vesicles and sacs, made up of the cells similar to those are around the neurons. Their two types rough and smooth are two different entities and are separated from each other. Large numbers of ribosomes are bound to the surface of Rough endoplasmic reticulum. Under the prescription for sequence of the steps by RNA released by…

Beneficial effects of the beta adrenergic antagonists in the treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is not uncommon for the patients to present with two or more disease states at the same time. Thus, the management of such concomitant disease states may be pharmacologically challenging as it is, for example, in the treatment of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and hypertension (HTN) with a compelling indication of the post-myocardial infarction (post-MI).…

The physiological processes of a mammal are in a unique balance where any deviation from the normal can result in a pathological condition. For example, mammals require a continuous intake of nutrients to ensure that every vital process can be maintained. If these processes are not maintained; the organism will begin to absorb its own nutrients, thereby reducing the availability of resources within the organism (Odette, 2005). An organism that is absorbing its own nutrients will be unable to…

The Effect of Incongruent Background Color on Odor Perception The olfactory perception is the one sense that is the most difficult to describe in words. It is also a rather personal sense since people connect scents with certain memories or images of their lives. When people are asked to imagine the scent of lavender, some might think about their mother’s laundry detergent that smelled like lavender, which she used when they were younger. But to imagine scent without thinking of an actual image…

including olfaction, vision, and audition. While primate communication is an extensively researched topic, not all modalities have received the same amount of research. Acoustic communication has been the most often studied, followed by visual and then olfactory (Semple & Higham, 2013). Typically primates are considered visual animals and several species have the ability to recognize color variants, a wide range of facial expressions, and colorful markings. It has been argued as to whether…