An olfactory pattern generator for on-demand combinatorial control of receptor activities
Si, G.; Baron, J.; Feng, Y.; Samuel, A.
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Olfactory systems employ combinatorial receptor codes for odors. Systematically generating stimuli that address the combinatorial possibilities of an olfactory code poses unique challenges. Here, we present a stimulus method to probe the combinatorial code, demonstrated using the Drosophila larva. This method leverages a set of primary odorants, each of which targets the activity of one olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) type at an optimal concentration. Our setup uses microfluidics to mix any combination of primary odorants on demand to activate any desired combination of ORNs. We use this olfactory pattern generator to demonstrate a spatially distributed olfactory representation in the dendrites of a single interneuron in the antennal lobe, the first olfactory neuropil of the larva. In the larval mushroom body, the next processing layer, we characterize diverse receptive fields of a population of Kenyon cells. The precision and flexibility of the olfactory pattern generator will facilitate systematic studies of processing and transformation of the olfactory code.
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