The Plasticity of Smell (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

The Plasticity of Smell

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During the first few days of life, chronic exposure to carbon dioxide (right) rather than air (left) alters the activity of projection neurons and interneurons in the fly brain -- research that is first to show that the olfactory system is plastic.

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Rockefeller University

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