glomerula

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olfactory bulb

  • Chemoreception enables animals to respond to chemicals that can be tasted and smelled in their environments. Many of these chemicals affect behaviours such as food preference and defense.
    In chemoreception: Smell

    …spheres of nerve tissue called glomeruli. They are formed from the branching ends of axons of receptor cells and from the outer (dendritic) branches of interneurons, known in vertebrates as mitral cells, that pass information to other parts of the brain. Tufted cells, which are similar to but smaller than…

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  • brain structure of the cat
    In olfactory bulb

    …spheres of nerve tissue called glomeruli. They are formed from the branching ends of axons of receptor cells and from the outer (dendritic) branches of interneurons, known in vertebrates as mitral cells, that pass information to other parts of the brain. Tufted cells, which are similar to but smaller than…

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