Takahashi Hiroo, Tsuboi Akio
Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Neural System, Advanced Medical Research Center, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan.
Bio Protoc. 2017 Mar 5;7(5):e2154. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2154.
Olfaction plays a fundamental role in the various behaviors such as feeding, mating, nursing, and avoidance in mice. Behavioral tests that characterize abilities of odor detection and recognition using genetically modified mice reveal the contribution of target genes to the olfactory processing. Here, we describe the olfactory habituation-dishabituation test for investigating the odor detection threshold in mice.
嗅觉在小鼠的进食、交配、哺育和回避等各种行为中起着至关重要的作用。利用基因改造小鼠进行的表征气味检测和识别能力的行为测试揭示了目标基因对嗅觉处理的作用。在此,我们描述一种用于研究小鼠气味检测阈值的嗅觉习惯化-去习惯化测试。