1999
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00826.x
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The spatial representation of chemical structures in the antennal lobe of honeybees: steps towards the olfactory code

Abstract: Odours are represented by speci®c ensembles of activated glomeruli in a combinatorial manner within the olfactory bulb of vertebrates or the antennal lobe (AL) of insects. Here, we optically measured glomerular calcium activities in vivo in the honeybee Apis mellifera during olfactory stimulation with 36 pure chemicals differing systematically in carbon chain length (C-5±10) and functional group (aldehyde, ketone, alcohol, carboxylic acid and alkane). We show their glomerular representations in 38 morphologica… Show more

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“…Olfactory receptors that respond to odorants with 5 carbons are likely to respond to odorants with 4 or 6 carbons but are less likely to respond to odorants with 7 or more carbons. Similar tuning specificities have been observed in glomeruli 6,7,14,[19][20][21][22][23] . In other words, odorants that have similar CAN and functional groups elicit similar glomerular response patterns.…”
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confidence: 81%
“…Olfactory receptors that respond to odorants with 5 carbons are likely to respond to odorants with 4 or 6 carbons but are less likely to respond to odorants with 7 or more carbons. Similar tuning specificities have been observed in glomeruli 6,7,14,[19][20][21][22][23] . In other words, odorants that have similar CAN and functional groups elicit similar glomerular response patterns.…”
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confidence: 81%
“…Each receptor cell expresses one receptor type [48], and all cells with the same receptor type project to the same glomeruli [31,46]. As a result, olfactory information seems to be encoded as combinatorial activation patterns of glomeruli in the AL [21,40,11,29]. In locust, these patterns are transformed to spatio-temporal patterns of active projection neurons (PNs) [22,25,50,24,39] which improve the separation of representations of similar odors [42,18,10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…La morphologie du lobe antennaire étant particulièrement bien conservée, on peut reconnaître chaque glomérule par sa localisation, sa taille ou sa forme chez des individus différents. Il a donc été possible de cartographier systématiquement les réponses des glomérules à de nombreuses odeurs classées en fonction de leur formule chimique (fonction aldéhyde, alcool ou cétone, longueur de la chaîne aliphatique) [6]. Ainsi, une similitude de structure chimique entre odeurs se traduit par une superposition des motifs d'activité glomérulaire.…”
Section: Ca 2+ Marqueur D'activitéunclassified
“…Ainsi, chez le grillon, un traitement induisant une augmentation intracellulaire de Ca 2+ , associé à une seule association odeur-récompense (qui ne produit normalement qu'une mémoire à court terme) est suffisant pour produire une mémoire à long terme [11]. La connaissance de l'origine des flux calciques révélés par l'imagerie in vivo dans le lobe antennaire [4,6,8,9] est déterminante pour comprendre les phénomènes de perception et d'apprentissage olfactifs. Au sein des glomérules, différents types neuronaux s'associent en réseau.…”
Section: Ca 2+ Acteur De Plasticitéunclassified
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