Bulbo olfatório do cão e do homem e seus aspectos morfofuncionais: um estudo de revisão

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Milena de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/47283
• topic: Nervo olfatório; Olfactory Nerve; Bulbo olfatório; Olfactory bulb; Lâmina crivosa; Cribriform plate

The sense of smell has been, over time, one of the main senses of vertebrates, and especially of mammals, which depend on them for survival, reproduction and other behavior inherent to its evolution in the context of phylogeny. The Olfactory Nerve, also anatomically known as I pair of cranial nerves, has been the subject of countless scientific studies and researches, because of its importance and relationship with one of the most important "senses", that is the smell. Nevertheless, and although it may seem contradictory, the mechanism of the sense of smell, from the functional point of view, still lacks explanations in the context of its neurophysiology, in spite of studies undertaken in this area. So, even nowadays some reinterpretations of science, morphological e functional comparisons and, above all, comparative studies, are important to establish and clarify, increasingly, its important functions with regard to animal behavior, their survival and, above all, through the smell and odor, often associated with the taste and also the important neural, centers establishing the individual, whether animal or human, in their proper position, within the scale or zoological phylogenetic. Therefore, the main goal of the present study is to present a literature review, where some morphological and functional aspects can be demonstrated evolutionary and chronologically by some important researchers in this area of study, with the aim of a comparative study more comprehensively, in addition to compare functional aspects of evolution between the two studied species of mammals, the dog (Canis familiaris).