Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Immobility responses are induced by photoactivation of single glomerular species responsive to fox odour TMT

  • Harumi Saito,
  • Hirofumi Nishizumi,
  • Satoshi Suzuki,
  • Hideyuki Matsumoto,
  • Nao Ieki,
  • Takaya Abe,
  • Hiroshi Kiyonari,
  • Masahiko Morita,
  • Hideo Yokota,
  • Nozomi Hirayama,
  • Takahiro Yamazaki,
  • Takefumi Kikusui,
  • Kensaku Mori,
  • Hitoshi Sakano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The olfactory bulb is arranged in glomeruli defined by their olfactory receptor expression. The authors identify an olfactory receptor for fox odour, TMT, and show that activation of the glomerulus expressing that receptor in mice leads to immobility, but does not lead to other fear behaviours.