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One in a thousand: defining the limits of olfactory perception

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Each olfactory sensory neuron in mice is defined by which of the ∼1,000 odorant receptor genes that it expresses. Using optogenetics, a study finds that mice can perceive stimulation of only a single class of olfactory sensory neuron.

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Figure 1: Glomerular input and output maps resulting from optogenetic stimulation of one glomerulus.

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  1. Nathan E. Schoppa is in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.,

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Schoppa, N. One in a thousand: defining the limits of olfactory perception. Nat Neurosci 16, 1516–1517 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3551

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