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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Cao LH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5676773 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20171107 1
Inhibitory response occurs throughout the nervous system, including the peripheral olfactory system. While odor-evoked excitation in peripheral olfactory cells is known to encode odor information, the molecular mechanism and functional roles of odor-evoked inhibition remain largely unknown. Here, we examined Drosophila olfactory sensory neurons and found that inhibitory odors triggered outward receptor currents by reducing the constitutive activities of odorant receptors, inhibiting the basal sp ...[more]