For example, studies show that even brief periods of odorant stimulation produce transient reductions in receptors in the olfactory epithelium, a process termed "receptor fatigue".

例如，研究表明，即使是短暂的气味刺激也会导致嗅觉上皮细胞中受体短暂的减少，这个过程被称为“受体疲劳”。

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The information conveyed by the olfactory signals on a buck rub make it the social equivalent of some auditory signals in other deer species, such as trumpeting by bull elk.

雄鹿的摩擦印记发出的嗅觉信号所传递的信息，使其与某些其他鹿类的听觉信号，比如公麋鹿的号角声，产生了相同的社会效果。

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Like a buck rub, a scrape is both a visual and an olfactory signal.

像雄鹿擦痕一样，雄鹿窝既是一种视觉信号，也是一种嗅觉信号。

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The head of Raptorex Kriegsteini shows evidence of a well-developed olfactory system.

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Since the space was small and climate-controlled, staffers allowed only small groups in for a few minutes at a time, which was enough to cure most people's olfactory curiosity.

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In 1986 Kevin Kinsella, a venture capitalist, spotted a neuroscience paper about the olfactory cortex of a rat's brain.

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Each neuron has a long fiber, or axon, that stretches upward through a tiny opening in the bone above it and into the olfactory bulb, a plum-size mass in the front of the brain, behind the forehead.

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Working with rats, Axel and Buck pinpointed 1, 000 types of "olfactory receptors" located in the back of the nose, on a spot called the olfactory epithelium.

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