title: [Research progress of external tufted cells in olfactory glomerulus].
abstract: External tufted (ET) cells are the major excitatory elements coordinating the activities of glomerulars and mediating the input from the olfactory neurons to mitral cells. The ET cells participate in inter-and intra-glomerular microcircuits in the olfactory bulb, link the isofunctional odor columns within the same olfactory bulb, and play an important role in olfactory information processing. This paper reviews the research progress of the anatomy and physiological properties and electrophysiological modeling of ET cells, elaborate the problems and defects in the field. And then it further gives some proposals for the future research of electrophysiological properties, development of olfactory information coding and performance of modeling of ET cells.
authors.affiliation: College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
authors.forename: Sainan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ying
authors.forename: Chunlong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Shucai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ling
authors.forename: Xuesong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ye
mesh_terms: D055724:Electrophysiological Phenomena / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D009833:Olfactory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D018034:Olfactory Receptor Neurons / Q000166:cytology*