olfactory
pertaining to odors or to sense of smell
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
5a. The Olfactory Nerves
FIG. 771- Nerves of septum of nose. Right side. (See enlarged image)
FIG. 772- Plan of olfactory neurons. (See enlarged image) ...
olfactory bulbs; they receive input from the olfactory epithelia.
Link to discussion of olfaction.
striatum; it receives input from the frontal lobes and also from the limbic system (below). At its base is the
nucleus accumbens (NA).
Main olfactory epithelium A specific region of the nose, containing approximately 1 million sensory neurons, that detects odorants.
[edit] Olfactory bulb projections
Olfactory sensory neurons project axons to the brain within the olfactory nerve, (cranial nerve I).
olfactory sacs Structures on both sides of the head of fishes that are sensitive to chemical stimuli.
olfactory Pertaining to the sense of smell.
Olfactory adult stem cells have been successfully grown by Prof. Alan Mackay-Sim,[6] deputy director of Griffith University's new Institute for Cellular and Molecular Therapies in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
However, Stubbs and her team also noted striking species-specific differences in the content and functional capacity of certain types of genes, including those encoding zinc-finger transcription factors, olfactory receptors, pheromone receptors, ...
Some flagella are not used for movement but in sensation and signal transduction by various cell types, e.g. rod photoreceptor cells of the eye, olfactory receptor neurons of the nose, kinocilium in cochlea of the ear ...
So, for example, when we are learning a new concept, or for a common example, when your are smelling a rose, you smell it, and information, this odor from the rose, goes into your nose and stimulates neurons that go up into your olfactory cortex.
 See also: Trans, Human, Cells, Long, Receptor
  
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