mitral cell

The convergence increases the sensitivity of mitral cells to odor detection.

Mitral cells are neurons that are part of the olfactory system.

Norepinephrine is considered to have an effect on the functioning of the mitral cells by increasing their responsiveness.

For example, Mitral cells seem to serve both as projection neurons and as local interneurons.

They have inhibitory synapses on mitral cells and tufted cells.

Receptor neurons and mitral cells located in the olfactory system adapt in response to odors.

Cell bodies of mitral cells are located in a distinct layer deep in the olfactory glomeruli.

In a mammalian olfactory system, a single dendrite from a mitral cell enters a single glomerulus.

However in fish, one or more dendrites from mitral cells enter one or more glomerulus.

They are expressed predominantly in the central nervous system in places such as the thalamus and mitral cells of the olfactory bulb.

Lowe G. Inhibition of backpropagating action potentials in mitral cell secondary dendrites.

Inside the glomerulus, the axons contact the dendrites of mitral cells and several other types of cells.

Glomeruli are also permeated by dendrites from neurons called mitral cells, which in turn output to the olfactory cortex.

Each glomerulus in the mouse model, for example, contains approximately 25 mitral cells which receive innervation from approximately 25,000 olfactory receptor axons.

Axons of the mitral cells transfer information to a number of areas in the brain, including the piriform cortex, entorhinal cortex, and amygdala.

Fish glomerulus differs from the mammalian glomerulus in terms of the number of dendrites that it receives from the mitral cells.

As in the main olfactory bulb, axonal input to the accessory olfactory bulb forms synapses with mitral cells within glomeruli.

The olfactory nerves go through the cribriform plate and terminate on the dendrites of the mitral cells located in the glomeruli of the olfactory bulb.

Granular cells also mediate inhibition and excitation of mitral cells through pathways from centrifugal fibers and the anterior olfactory nuclei.

However, mitral cells in the accessory olfactory bulb project their axons to targets in the amygdala and hypothalamus, where they may influence aggressive and mating behavior.

In each glomerulus the axons of the receptor neurons contact the apical dendrites of mitral cells, which are the principal projection neurons in the olfactory bulb.

Mitral cells also project to periglomerular cells and granular cells that inhibit the mitral cells surrounding it (lateral inhibition).

Each cell gives rise to short central dendrites and a single long apical dendrite that expands into the granule cell layer and enters the mitral cell body layer.

Numerous interneuron types exist in the olfactory bulb including periglomerular cells which synapse within and between glomeruli, and granule cells which synapse with mitral cells.

Each mitral cell extends a primary dendrite to a single glomerulus, where the dendrite gives rise to an elaborate tuft of branches onto which the primary olfactory axons synapse.