Ch 17 Flashcards
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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
- 1-month lifespan
- Bipolar axon with a dendrite
- The hair /cilia is the site of transduction
Olfactory hairs
- Site of transduction (Eventually produce receptor potential)
Supporting Cell of olfaction does what?
- support nourish protect dtoxify (part of olfactory epitehelium)
Basal stem cells
Cells from which cell division takes place (new receptors will grow)
One of the few places CNS regrowth is common
- Olfactory (Bowman’s) glands
- Produces mucous that flows into mucous cavity
- Traps odorant and moisten cavity
Olfactory Adaptation and Thresholds
- How quickly do u stop register smell
- Within 1 second there is 50% reduction of smell
- After 1 minute it is almost all gone
- Very low threshold for smelling
Olfactory Pathway
- Bundles of unmyelinated axons of olfactory receptors extend through olfactory foramina
- Form left and right olfactory nerves
- Olactory bulbs (frontal lobe cortex)
- Olfactory tract
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
- Elevations called papilla (texture and taste)
- Foliate not common in adults (disappear in childhood)
Supporting cells to taste buds
- Brown ones
- Support recpeot (whole taste bud)
- Gustatory Receptor Cells
- Microgilia sticking up to surface.
Gustatory Hair
- Site of transduction (RP and the AP)
Taste pore
- Openings where food saliva can fall into whole
- If food not chewed then you wont get same taste out of food (doesn’t fall into hole with
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
- Larger elevations with 200-300 per papillae
- More food goes into it
Fungiform
- Fungiform (Typically five buds per) typicalluy extends over entire tongue
Foliate
- Lateral lines, disappear after breast feeding
(No taste buds)
Filiform
- Located over entire surface for tactile sensations only
Gustation sequence
- Tastant (Food + Saliva)
- Gustatory hairs
- Synapse
- Recepotr Potential
- 1st Order Neuron
How do different tastes occur?
Different combos od taste recepors