Odor Discrimination and Odor Quality Perception in Rats with Disruption of Connections between the Olfactory Epithelium and Olfactory Bulbs

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 4205-4216

  Slotnick, Burton ^a   Bodyak, Natalya ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Odor coding; Odor quality; Olfactory bulb; Olfactory discrimination; Olfactory memory; Olfatoxin

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; FATTY ACID; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; SKATOLE; TOXIN; ALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DISRUPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; LONG EVANS RAT; ODOR; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SMELLING DISORDER;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SKATOLE; SMELL;

EID: 0037095690     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-10-04205.2002     Document Type: Article

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