Olfactory bulb mitral cell

Mitral cells are pyramidal neurons in the olfactory bulb, olfactory bulb and the accessory olfactory bulb.

In mammals the odorants, or fragrances may be perceived in the olfactory epithelium, which sits in humans in the upper turbinate. There, the olfactory sensory cells, olfactory sensory neurons specifically the (OSN ), these generate stimuli are the primary at about 6-10 million over the olfactory bulb, olfactory bulb sensory cells of the olfactory system are forwarded. The olfactory sensory neurons are bipolar neurons with a dendrite. The dendrites distal end with 5-10 very fine immobile cilia in a thin mucous layer which is located on the surface of the epithelium. At the proximal pole of the olfactory sensory neuron leads from each of these neurons, a single axon directly into the olfactory bulb. Here are the mitral cells, which transmit the action potentials at higher brain regions.

Their dendrites are as so-called olfactory brush, penicillin olfactorii involved in the constitution of the olfactory glomeruli, their neurites thus accumulate as myelinated nerve fibers in the olfactory tract after switching to the second neuron of the olfactory tract.