An odor delivery system for arbitrary time-varying patterns of odors, mixtures and concentrations

Gupta, Priyanka, Albeanu, Dinu F, Bhalla, Upinder S (September 2016) An odor delivery system for arbitrary time-varying patterns of odors, mixtures and concentrations. bioRxiv. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Odor stimuli in the natural environment are intermittent and the concentration of any given odor fluctuates rapidly over time. Further, even in the simplest scenario, the olfactory sensors receive uncorrelated, intermittent inputs in the form of odor plumes arising from several odor sources in the local environment. However, typically used odor stimuli under laboratory settings are restricted to long-duration (~seconds), single pulse of one odor at a time that are rarely encountered in nature. This inadequate choice of odor stimuli is due to the dearth of affordable odor delivery systems that can generate plume-like, naturalistic stimuli with high reproducibility such as to allow for repeat measurements under laboratory conditions. We thus developed an odor delivery system that generates arbitrary time-varying patterns of individual odors and ternary mixtures at time scales of ~20 Hz. Here, we provide a detailed description of the construction and output characterization of our odor delivery system.

Item Type:	Paper
Subjects:	organism description > animal behavior organism description > animal behavior > odor recognition
CSHL Authors:	Gupta, Priyanka Albeanu, Dinu F.
Communities:	CSHL labs > Albeanu lab
SWORD Depositor:	CSHL Elements
Depositing User:	CSHL Elements
Date:	29 September 2016
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2023 20:32
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2023 20:32
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URI:	https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/41354

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