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  • Thumbnail for Vomeronasal organ
    The vomeronasal organ (VNO), or Jacobson's organ, is the paired auxiliary olfactory (smell) sense organ located in the soft tissue of the nasal septum...
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    Sense of smell (redirect from Olfactory)
    understanding) that stimulate the olfactory organ. A modern demonstration of that theory was the cloning of olfactory receptor proteins by Linda B. Buck...
    61 KB (7,193 words) - 07:06, 10 June 2024
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    The human nose is the first organ of the respiratory system. It is also the principal organ in the olfactory system. The shape of the nose is determined...
    78 KB (9,094 words) - 12:29, 17 May 2024
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    associated specific organs. Most mammals and reptiles have a main olfactory system and an accessory olfactory system. The main olfactory system detects airborne...
    31 KB (3,600 words) - 15:39, 22 January 2024
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    The olfactory bulb (Latin: bulbus olfactorius) is a neural structure of the vertebrate forebrain involved in olfaction, the sense of smell. It sends olfactory...
    39 KB (4,614 words) - 23:24, 12 December 2023
  • The sensory organs of gastropods (snails and slugs) include olfactory organs, eyes, statocysts and mechanoreceptors. Gastropods have no sense of hearing...
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    possess an additional olfactory organ called the vomeronasal organ (VnO). ... The VnO was previously thought to be a specialized organ for pheromone detection...
    29 KB (3,066 words) - 15:09, 5 June 2024
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    last theory was based on the fact that they seem to have a paired olfactory organ and a sensory-line pattern which is quite similar to that of the gnathostomes...
    5 KB (332 words) - 15:33, 22 November 2023
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    Pisano, E. (1 August 2016). "Gross morphology and histology of the olfactory organ of the Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus". Polar Biology. 39...
    45 KB (4,664 words) - 19:54, 9 June 2024
  • olfactory organs") does not make sense unless the particular usage is specified (e.g. "Archezoa sensu Cavalier-Smith (1987) have no olfactory organs")...
    7 KB (872 words) - 15:42, 24 May 2024
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    and slugs), the olfactory organs, located on the tips of the four tentacles, are the most important sensory organ. The chemosensory organs of opisthobranch...
    48 KB (5,034 words) - 03:57, 10 June 2024
  • lymphoid organs Secondary lymphoid organs Central nervous system Peripheral nervous system Autonomic division of peripheral nervous system Olfactory organ Eye...
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    receiving stimuli in gases in the olfactory system through both olfactory receptor neurons and neurons in the vomeronasal organ. Direct chemoreceptors that...
    29 KB (3,276 words) - 12:02, 29 March 2024
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    male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well-developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. Males of some species also develop...
    46 KB (4,848 words) - 02:47, 29 May 2024
  • Sense (redirect from Sensory organ)
    graded membrane potential in the olfactory neurons. In the brain, olfaction is processed by the olfactory cortex. Olfactory receptor neurons in the nose differ...
    90 KB (10,689 words) - 09:43, 4 May 2024
  • Odor molecules are detected by the olfactory receptors (hereafter OR) in the olfactory epithelium of the nasal cavity. Each receptor type is expressed...
    43 KB (5,762 words) - 19:35, 3 April 2024
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    list of organs of the human body. It is widely believed that there are 79 organs (this number goes up if you count each bone and muscle as an organ on their...
    8 KB (223 words) - 09:56, 30 May 2024
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    The olfactory epithelium is a specialized epithelial tissue inside the nasal cavity that is involved in smell. In humans, it measures 5 cm2 (0.78 sq in)...
    19 KB (2,054 words) - 04:38, 27 May 2024
  • contact chemosensory organ, and grooved pegs have numerous pores on their cuticle which suggests they function as an olfactory organ. The cassava mealybug...
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    inhalation. Olfactory organs located on either side of the nasal septum consist of olfactory epithelium and lamina propria. The olfactory epithelium,...
    31 KB (3,971 words) - 21:25, 25 May 2024
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