Chapter title |
Behavioral Assays in the Study of Olfaction: A Practical Guide
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Chapter number | 21 |
Book title |
Olfactory Receptors
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-8609-5_21 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-8608-8, 978-1-4939-8609-5
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Authors |
Fabio Papes, Thiago S. Nakahara, Antonio P. Camargo, Papes, Fabio, Nakahara, Thiago S., Camargo, Antonio P. |
Abstract |
Olfaction is a fundamental sense in most animal species. In mammals, the olfactory system comprises several subpopulations of sensory neurons located throughout the nasal cavity, which detect a variety of chemostimuli, including odorants, intraspecies and interspecies chemical communication cues. Some of these compounds are important for regulating innate and learned behaviors, and endocrine changes in response to other animals in the environment. With a particular focus on laboratory rodent species, this chapter provides a comprehensive description of the most important behavioral assays used for studying the olfactory system, and is meant to be a practical guide for those who study olfaction-mediated behaviors or who have an interest in deciphering the molecular, cellular, or neural mechanisms through which the sense of smell controls the generation of adaptive behavioral outputs. |
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