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Lecture 36 - Chemical senses Flashcards

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Where is the olfactory mucosa?

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Roof of the nasal cavity

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What two things does flavor perception drive?

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Olfactory, taste, and somatosensory cues

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What is within the olfactory mucosa?

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Mucus layer with odorant-binding proteins, olfactory, epithelium, underlying basal lamina (Bowman’s gland)

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What is mucus secreted from in the olfactory mucosa?

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Supporting cells
– and –
Bowman’s gland

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What cell types are within the olfactory epithelium?

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Olfactory receptor neurons
Supporting/sustentacular cells
Basal cells

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What is the function of the basal cells in the olfactory epithelium?

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Stem cells; give rise to new receptors

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What is the lifespan of the olfactory receptors?

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30-60 days

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What is the function of the supporting cells in the olfactory epithelium?

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Columnar cells - contribute to mucus production

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What kind of neuron are the olfactory receptor neurons?

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Bipolar neurons

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What are the two regions of the olfactory bipolar neurons?

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Apical dendrite
– and –
basal unmyelinated axon

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What is occurring at the dendritic end of the olfactory neurons?

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Terminates in the olfactory vesicle

Protrude into the mucous layer and contain receptors

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What happens at the basal end of the olfactory receptors?

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Projects through the Cribriform plate with other axons as bundles (Olfactory fila)

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What does the basal end of the olfactory receptor neurons synapse on?

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Glomeruli of the olfactory bulb

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How do the odorants in the air reach the olfactory receptor?

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Cross the mucosa via binding to odorant binding proteins

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How many odorant receptors does each olfactory receptor get?

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One

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What are the two transduction mechanisms that occur in olfactory transduction?

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One cation
– and –
One calcium

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What happens to the olfactory neuron when transduction occurs?

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Depolarization

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What is receptor cycling?

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Once odorant receptor becomes saturated it retreats into the cell

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What type of receptor is a olfactory receptor?

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G-protein coupled

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What type of system is the olfactory system? (in regards to how it works)

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Change detector system - detects new odorants and ignores old ones

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What is the central olfactory pathway? (basic)

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Olfactory bulb - Tract - Cortex

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How many layers are within the olfactory bulb?

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5

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What happens with the axons of the olfactory receptor?

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Pass through the cribriform plate

Terminate in the olfactory bulb

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What are the five layers of the olfactory bulb?

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Olfactory nerve 
Glomerular 
External plexiform 
Mitral cell 
Granule cell
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24
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What is within the olfactory nerve layer?

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AXONS of the olfactory receptor neurons

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What is within the glomerular layer?

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Synapses of olfactory receptor neurons on mitral and tufted cells
Periglomerular cells
Tonography of odors

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What types of neurons are periglomerular cells?

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Interneurons

27
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How are glomerular synapses organized?

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Each synapse receives same odorant information

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What synapses on the glomeruli after the olfactory receptors?

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Mitral cells

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What is contained within the external plexiform layer?

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Cell bodies of tufted cells

30
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What is contained within the mitral layer?

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Cell bodies of mitral cells

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What are the three cell layers of the olfactory cortex?

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Periamygdaloid - Piriform - Enorhinal

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What is the path of olfactory information through the olfactory cortex?

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anterior olfactory nucleus  
olfactory tubercle 
piriform cortex 
amygdala 
periamygdaloid cortex 
entorhinal cortex
33
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What is the main output for the association fiber system?

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Lateral hypothalamus

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What are other, besides lateral hippocampus, regions that the association fiber system projects to?

A

Ipsilateral olfactory bulb
Contralateral olfactory bulb/cortex
Hippocampus

35
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What projects to the hipocampus?

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Lateral entorhinal cortex

36
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What does the anterior olfactory nucleus project to?

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Ipislateral/Contralateral olfactory bulb

37
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What is important for feeding behavior?

A

Olfactory cortex projecting to the lateral hypothalamus

38
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What is important for learning behavior?

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Entorhinal cortex neurons projecting to the hippocampus

39
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What is responsible for odor discrimination and identification?

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Orbitofrontal cortex and insula

40
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What also goes to the Orbitofrontal and insula?

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Taste input

41
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What is disosmia?

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Reduction/loss of sense of smell

42
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What are three things that can cause disosmia?

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Mucosal
Obstruction
Nerve/brain

43
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What is the function of the vomeronasal organ?

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Sexual activity - Flehman reaction - Emotional states - Illnesses

44
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What are the three types of papillae on the tongue?

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Vallate - Foliate - Fungiform

45
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What part of the tongue do fungiform papillae cover?

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Anterior 2/3

46
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What part of the tongue does the vallate papillae cover?

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8-12 in V-shape on posterior tongue

47
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Where are the foliate papillae?

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one on each side of lateral tongue

48
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What are the characteristics of a supertaster?

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Higher density of fungiform papillae
Experience greater oral burn and oral touch
Supersniffers as well

49
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Where are taste buds located?

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Tongue papillae

50
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What is the structure of a taste bud?

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Taste pore - opening

Innervated by afferent neurons

51
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What is the lifespan of a taste bud?

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10-14 days

52
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What part of the taste bud does the supporting cell make/

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The outside portion

53
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How many taste receptors to a taste bud?

54
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What is the apical end of the taste bud covered in?

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Microvilli

55
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How does salty transduction occur?

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Sodium of salt taste molecules may eneter through cation channels

56
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What does sour transduction occur?

A

Protons of the sour taste molecules may block potassium channels

57
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How is sweet, bitter, and sour tasted?

A

G protein coupled receptors

58
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What is the central taste pathway for the anterior 2/3 of the tongue?

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Fungiform/Foliate papillae - taste afferents - chorda tympani of facial nerve - geniculate ganglion - ipsilateral rostral solitary nucleus

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What is the central taste pathway of the posterior 1/3 of the tongue?

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Vallate papillae/Foliate papillae - taste afferent neurons - glossopharyngeal n. - Inferior ganglion of CN IX - ipsilateral rostral solitary tract

60
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What is the central pathway for the soft palate?

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Extralingual taste buds - taste afferent neurons - greater petrosal branch of the Facial N. - Geniculate ganglion - Ipsilateral rostral solitary nucleus

61
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What is the central taste pathway for the epiglottis/esophagus?

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Extralingual taste buds - taste afferent neurons - superior laryngeal br. of vagus n. - inferior ganglion of CN X - ipsilateral rostral solitary nucleus

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What are the three ganglia involved with taste?

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Geniculate - Petrosal - Nodose

63
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What CN is the geniculate n. related to?

64
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What CN is the petrosal ganglia related to?

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CN IX - Glossopharyngeal

65
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What CN is the nodose ganglia related to?

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