Odors pulsed at wing beat frequencies are tracked by primary olfactory networks and enhance odor detection

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2010, Pages

  Tripathy, Shreejoy J ^a,b,c   Peters, Oakland J ^a   Staudacher, Erich M ^a   Kalwar, Faizan R ^a   Hatfield, Mandy N ^a   Daly, Kevin C ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennal lobe; GABA; Olfaction; Olfactory bulb; Oscillations; Sensory sampling; Sniffi ng; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958811631     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.03.001.2010     Document Type: Article

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