What is smell
A chemical taste
Lots of connections to cortex for taste and limbic for emotion
Receptor potential
Has a synapse and a NT
Olfactory receptors are
Olfactory hairs
Supporting Cell of olfaction does what?
Basal stem cells
Cells from which cell division takes place (new receptors will grow)
One of the few places CNS regrowth is common
Olfactory Adaptation and Thresholds
Olfactory Pathway
5.A Cortex olfactory area - Frontal Lobe
5.B Limbic and hypothalamus
- emotion and memory
Hyposmia
reduced ability to smell, occurs with age as number of receptors decrease also drugs smoking traumatic brain injury, dementia (appetite decreases)
5 types of tastes
Salty (ant lat)
Sweet
Sour (lateral)
Bitter (Back)
Umami (beefy)
Taste buds
Supporting cells to taste buds
Gustatory Hair
Taste pore
Basal Cells
Produce new taste buds (receptor cell) ten day life span
Papillae
b) Papillae (elevations on tongue)
- Mosst have conc of tastebuds
(Contain taste buds)
Vallate
Fungiform
Foliate
Filiform
Gustation sequence
How do different tastes occur?
Different combos od taste recepors