Sensing odorants and pheromones with chemosensory receptors

K Touhara, LB Vosshall - Annual review of physiology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Olfaction is a critical sensory modality that allows living things to acquire chemical
information from the external world. The olfactory system processes two major classes of …

Bioelectronic nose and its application to smell visualization

HJ Ko, TH Park - Journal of biological engineering, 2016 - Springer
There have been many trials to visualize smell using various techniques in order to
objectively express the smell because information obtained from the sense of smell in …

Deorphanizing vertebrate olfactory receptors: recent advances in odorant-response assays

K Touhara - Neurochemistry international, 2007 - Elsevier
Olfactory receptors (ORs) comprise the largest multigene G protein-coupled receptor
families in organisms from fish to primates, and play a critical role in recognizing thousands …

Amino acids involved in conformational dynamics and G protein coupling of an odorant receptor: targeting gain‐of‐function mutation

A Kato, S Katada, K Touhara - Journal of neurochemistry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Thousands of different odorants are recognized and discriminated by odorant receptors
(ORs) in the guanine nucleotide‐binding protein (G protein)‐coupled seven‐transmembrane …

3. 嗅覚研究と応用生命科学 (< 総説特集> 匂いのもつ生理機能発現への道筋)

東原和成 - 日本味と匂学会誌, 2008 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 料理を口に含んで咀嚼したとたん, マリアージュした香りが口中から鼻腔へと抜け,
嗅覚が刺激され幸福な気持ちになれる.「おいしさ」 を追求する食品科学において …