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As a simple example, suppose an odorant is the only odorant that elicits relatively high intensity responses from receptor types X

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  1. Odorous; fragrant; sweet-scented. The thrid day next my sone went doune To erthe, whiche was disposed plentuously Of aungels bright and hevenly soune, With odoraunt odoure ful copiously. MS. Bodl. 423, f. 204. (Halliwell.)

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  • Each odorant molecule activates several classes of olfactory cells with varying intensity. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • To take a simple example, suppose an odorant is composed of six different types of molecules, and each of six olfactory receptor types is sensitive to one of these molecules. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Still another mechanism could normalize the strengths of the six responses to correct for different odorant concentrations and then compare the normalized responses to a stored set of values representing the particular odor. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The patterns of receptor responses produced by odorant mixtures can be quite complex, especially when two or more of the components of a mixture contain some of the same or similar molecules that activate the same receptor types. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Signals from one or more receptor types but not from X narrow the identity of an odorant to four possibilities. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. = French odorant = Italian odorante, from Latin odoran(t-)s, present participle of odorare, perfume: see odorate.
 

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