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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 15, 1998, 18(12):4560-4569
Odorant Response Properties of Convergent Olfactory Receptor
Neurons
Thomas C.
Bozza and
John S.
Kauer
Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine,
Boston, Massachusetts 02111
Information about odorant stimuli is thought to be represented in
spatial and temporal patterns of activity across neurons in the
olfactory epithelium and the olfactory bulb (OB). Previous studies
suggest that olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) distributed in the nasal
cavity project to localized regions in the glomerular layer of the OB.
However, the functional significance of this convergence is not yet
known, and in no studies have the odorant response properties of
individual ORNs projecting to defined OB regions been measured
directly. We have retrogradely labeled mouse ORNs connecting to
different glomeruli in the dorsal OB and tested single cells for
responses to odorants using fura-2 calcium imaging. ORNs that project
to clusters of dorsomedial (DM) glomeruli exhibit different odorant
response profiles from those that project to dorsolateral (DL)
glomeruli. DL-projecting ORNs showed responses to compounds with widely
different structures, including carvone, eugenol, cinnamaldehyde, and
acetophenone. In contrast, DM-projecting neurons exhibited responses to
a more structurally restricted set of compounds and responded
preferentially to organic acids. These data demonstrate that ORN
afferents segregate by odorant responsiveness and that the homogeneity
of ORN and glomerular input varies with different OB regions. The data
also demonstrate that a subpopulation of ORNs projecting to DM
glomeruli is functionally similar.
Key words:
olfactory receptor neurons; olfactory bulb; calcium; imaging; retrograde tracing; glomeruli; mouse; olfactory coding
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/18124560-10$05.00/0
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