Function of the Olfactory CortexDonald A. Wilson a bBrett S. East a bThe Senses: A Comprehensive Reference (Second Edition)
Why can?t you taste when you are congested? 75% of what we perceive as taste comes from sense of smell! Answer and Explanation:1 The function of the olfactory tract is to connect the olfactory bulb to multiple areas within the center of the brain. The olfactory tract is made up... ...
The predominant type of immune cell in the brain is the microglia, a type of tissue-resident macrophage. In a variety of neurodegenerative settings, microglia alter their transcriptional profile, morphology and function in similar ways; thus, these activated cells have been called ‘degeneration- or...
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(RNA-seq) analysis. We isolated ARG1–YFP+CX3CR1+microglia and ARG1–YFP–CX3CR1+microglia from the area ventral to the corpus callosum and anterior to the lateral ventricles and excluding the olfactory bulb of P13 female and male YARG animals (Fig.3a). Confirmatory immunohistochemistry ...
The limbic cortex is formed by various cerebral sulci and gyri of the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes. The deep part of the limbic system is formed by the hippocampal formation, amygdala, diencephalon, olfactory cortex, basal ganglia, basal part of the cerebrum and brainstem. The overall ...
Olfactory bulbs are paired neural masses that are at the terminal ends of the olfactory nerves, they relay information from olfactory nerve fibers to the olfactory tract, which continues on into the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum. There is an olfactory bulb in each cerebral hemisphere and the ...
(Extended Data Fig.1b). We undertook further analysis in the cerebral cortex. Whereas the tdTom+dOLCs declined within the cerebral cortex in ablated mice compared to non-ablated controls, there was a relative increase in the number of eGFP+cells of ventral origin: 90% of OLCs were eGFP...
Interestingly, the function of frontal areas of the brain, especially the orbito-frontal cortex (OFC), can be linked to these behaviors and to the development of these diseases. Therefore, alterations in OFC function appear to be central to the relationship between early life adversity and later...
In adult CNS, nestin can only be observed in neural progenitors at regions undergoing active neurono- and gliogenesis, such as hippocampus and olfactory bulb, as well as a subset of neurons located in the basal forebrain (23, 30, 32). In rat peripheral nervous system, nestin expression ...