Behavioral responses to aliphatic aldehydes can be predicted from known electrophysiological responses of mitral cells in the olfactory bulb

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 497-502

  Linster, Christiane ^a   Hasselmo, Michael E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliphatic aldehydes; Electrophysiological responses; Mitral cells; Olfactory bulb

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; ALIPHATIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; MALE; MITRAL CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032920478     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00324-2     Document Type: Article

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