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Adrenaline enhances odorant contrast by modulating signal encoding in olfactory receptor cells
F Kawai1, T Kurahashi, A Kaneko
1Department of Information Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.
Nature Neuroscience
|April 9, 1999
Summary
Adrenaline directly impacts olfactory receptor cells, altering how they encode smells. This hormone influences neural signals, potentially sharpening smell perception by narrowing the dynamic range of olfactory responses.
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