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J Neurophysiol 88: 829-838, 2002;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 88 No. 2 August 2002, pp. 829-838
Copyright ©2002 by the American Physiological Society

Mitral Cell Temporal Response Patterns Evoked by Odor Mixtures in the Rat Olfactory Bulb

Pascale Giraudet,1,2 Frédéric Berthommier,1 and Michel Chaput2

 1Institut de la Communication Parlée, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, 38031 Grenoble Cedex 1; and  2Neurosciences et Systèmes Sensoriels, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Université Claude Bernard-Lyon I, 69366 Lyon Cedex 7, France

Giraudet, Pascale, Frédéric Berthommier, and Michel Chaput. Mitral Cell Temporal Response Patterns Evoked by Odor Mixtures in the Rat Olfactory Bulb. J. Neurophysiol. 88: 829-838, 2002. Mammals generally have the ability to extract odor information contained in complex mixtures of molecular components. However, odor mixture processing has been studied electrophysiologically only in insects, crustaceans, and fish. As a first step toward a better understanding of this processing in high vertebrates, we studied the representation of odor mixtures in the rat olfactory bulb, i.e., the second-order level of the olfactory pathways. We compared the single-unit responses of mitral cells, the main cells of the olfactory bulb, to pure odors and to their binary mixtures. Eighty-six mitral cells were recorded in anesthetized freely breathing rats stimulated with five odorants and their 10 binary mixtures. The spontaneous activity and the odor-evoked responses were characterized by their temporal distribution of activity along the respiratory cycle, i.e., by cycle-triggered histograms. Ninety percent of the mixtures were found to evoke a response when at least one of their two components evoked a response. Mixture-evoked patterns were analyzed to describe the modalities of the combination of patterns evoked by the two components. In most of the cases, the mixture pattern was closely similar to one of the component patterns. This dominance of a component over the other one was related to the responsiveness of the cell to the individual components of the mixture, to the molecular nature of the stimulus, and to the coarse shape of individual response patterns. This suggests that the components of binary mixtures may be encoded simultaneously by different odor-specific temporal distributions of activity.




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