Odor mixtures: A chord with silent notes

The olfactory world is one of complex mixtures and blends containing up to hundreds of molecules. Many of those molecules can act as agonists, antagonists or enhancers at different receptors. This complicates the mechanism by which higher centers construct perceptions of complex mixtures. We propose...

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Main Authors: Lu Xu, Dong-Jing Zou, Stuart Firestein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1135486/full