Flavor-Base
2004
- A major upgrade to
the world's most extensive database on flavoring
materials and food additives is now available.
The
Smell & Taste Center - University of
Pennsylvania
Sensonics
- Quantitative Tests for Smell and Taste
Glomerular
Activity Response Archive for the Rat Olfactory
Bulb
- Michael Leon & Brett
Johnson at the University of California,
Irvine
Olfaction
-
A Review
- Updated February,
2002
Leffingwell
& Associates -
February 14, 2002, Canton, GA announced the public
release of theoretical 3-D Models of selected Human
Olfactory receptors and a rapid and simple methodology
for determining the putative odorant binding cavity.
Chirality
& Odour
Perception-
NEW
Flavor
& Fragrance Patents - 26
Years
to
February 26, 2002 (Full Text &
Images)
- NEW
Cooler
than Menthol
- NEW
Olfactory
receptor gene superfamily of the
mouse - January 2002 -
Stuart Firestein with Xinmin Zhang at Columbia University
have identified the mouse OR genes from the nearly
complete Celera mouse genome by a comprehensive data
mining strategy. They found 1,296 mouse OR genes
(including 20% pseudogenes). Human ORs cover a similar
'receptor space' as the mouse ORs, suggesting that the
human olfactory system has retained the ability to
recognize a broad spectrum of chemicals even though
humans have lost nearly two-thirds of the OR genes as
compared to mice.
The
human olfactory receptor
repertoire
- Scientists at Senomyx, Inc. have
identified a set of 347 human olfactory receptor genes,
which the Company believes represents substantially the
complete set of functional receptors related to
smell.
The
Human Olfactory Receptor Data
Exploratorium
- Olfactory receptors (ORs)
constitute the largest multigene family in multicellular
organisms. Their evolutionary proliferation has been
driven by the need to provide recognition capacity for
millions of potential odorants with arbitrary chemical
configurations. Homo sapiens will likely be the first
vertebrate species in which the complete OR repertoire
will be known. You will find here information on the OR
proteins, their structure, function and evolution.A set
of analysis tools is provided.
Olfaction:
Preview - by Bill Milgram,
a very cool slide presentation that reviews the basic
mechanism of olfaction (with nice graphics) -requires
frames.
The
Sense of Smell - from
Professor John
W. Kimball
Sensation
and Perception by
Daniel
Hart, an excellent graphic
slide show that covers Vision, Hearing, Smell &
Taste, Texture and Perceptual
illusions
Seeing,
Hearing & Smelling the World
from the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute
Olfaction:
A tutorial on the sense of smell
by ProfessorTim
Jacob with nice graphics of
the physiological sections involved in
olfaction
Smell:
The Forgotten Sense - from
Macalester College Neuroscience Page
The
Vomeronasal Organ
Le
système olfactif
OR/MF3:
a molecular dynamics mean field model of OR
responses
