title: Stop the biting: targeting a mosquito's sense of smell.
abstract: Mosquitoes are a great threat to human health. Fortunately, they have a weakness: they utilize their sense of smell to target a human host. Recent studies examine the effectiveness of protecting humans from attack by ablating or odorant targeting mosquito olfactory receptors. The results are both promising and alarming.
authors.affiliation: The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, The Center for Sensory Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: cpotter@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Potter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism; D009033:Culicidae / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009032:Mosquito Control; D018034:Olfactory Receptor Neurons / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D018035:Receptors, Odorant / Q000378:metabolism; D012903:Smell
chemical_list: D019476:Insect Proteins; D018035:Receptors, Odorant; D002245:Carbon Dioxide