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- noun Plural form of
odorant .
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Examples
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( "odorants") in urine could be used as biomarkers for lung cancer.
Elites TV 2010
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Citation: "Cross-adaptation of a model human stress-related odour with fragrance chemicals and ethyl esters of axillary odorants: gender-specific effects."
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Even this initial version can detect odorants at levels imperceptible to humans.
Archive 2006-06-18 Edward Willett 2006
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A putative social chemosignal elicits faster cortical responses than perceptually similar odorants.
More Parts of the Puzzle Zoe Brain 2008
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Even this initial version can detect odorants at levels imperceptible to humans.
E-noses Edward Willett 2006
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It was obvious to me that the first step to solving the puzzle was to determine how odorants are initially detected in the nose.
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First, since odorants vary in structure and can be discriminated, there would be a family of varied, but related odorant receptors, which would be encoded by a multigene family.
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Different neurons are recognized, and thereby encoded, by different combinations of ORs, but each OR is used as one component of the combinatorial receptor codes for many different odorants.
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The discovery of odorant receptors had explained how the olfactory system detects odorants.
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Although there were varied proposals as to what kind of molecules might interact with odorants, there was compelling evidence that olfactory transduction involved G-protein induced increases in cAMP.
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