sensilla

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They then showed that when these receptors are expressed in the cells in the coeloconic sensilla, the cells respond to odors.

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  1. A simple or elementary sense-organ represented by a single epithelial cell at the end of a sensory nerve-fiber.

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  • Scientists have characterized the receptors that detect odors in two of these types but those receptors were mysteriously absent in the third, a swath of territory known as the coeloconic sensilla. —  innovations-report
  • "It has been shown that cells in the coeloconic sensilla detect odors," Vosshall says. —  innovations-report
  • The team showed that these receptors, which the Vosshall lab named ionotropic receptors, do in fact explain how cells in coeloconic sensilla detect odors. —  innovations-report
  • They then showed that when these receptors are expressed in the cells in the coeloconic sensilla, the cells respond to odors. —  innovations-report
  • Whereas sensory structures in different nondauer stages closely resemble each other, including the inner labial sensilla, amphids, and deirids. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. New Latin, from Latin sensus, sense, + diminutive -illa.
 

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