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Olfactory System
Description:
Our chemical senses, taste and smell, are our oldest senses. Long before organisms could hear or see, they needed to find nutrients, had to avoid toxic substances, and they were attracted by signaling molecules that were released by their mating partners. Right from the beginning of evolution, the task of our chemical senses was not to merely identify the chemical compounds encountered by the organism, but to directly initiate behavioral responses. This sense of smell has long remained the most...
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Curr Neuropharmacol. 2019;17(9):891-911. doi: 10.2174/1570159X17666181206095626. -
Olfaction: Smell of Change in the Air.
Cerebrum. 2017 Jul 1;2017. pii: cer-10-17. eCollection 2017 Jul-Aug. -
Human olfactory receptor responses to odorants.
Sci Data. 2015 Feb 3;2:150002. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.2. eCollection 2015. -
The Effects of Essential Oils and Terpenes in Relation to Their Routes of Intake and Application.
Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Feb 25;21(5). pii: E1558. doi: 10.3390/ijms21051558. Review.
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