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NEUROREPORT
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 1123-1127Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200306110-00005
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Ca2+ imaging; coronal slice; mouse; odorant; olfaction; olfactory epithelium
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An in situ Ca2+-imaging technique was adopted to monitor odorant responses of more than several hundreds of neurons simultaneously in an intact coronal slice of the mouse olfactory epithelium. The sensitivity and resolution of the slice Ca2+-imaging were high enough to distinguish between olfactory receptor neurons with threshold concentrations in a one-order difference for a particular odorant at the single-cell level. Increasing odorant concentrations resulted in increases in the numbers of odorant-responsive neurons, which were visualized in situ in the coronal slice. The methodology established in this study is a powerful tool to visualize spatial distributions of odorant responsive neurons at a cellular resolution, and to construct odor maps in a coronal view of the olfactory epithelium.
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