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- Title
Multi-Odor Discrimination by Rat Sniffing for Potential Monitoring of Lung Cancer and Diabetes.
- Authors
Oh, Yunkwang; Kwon, Ohseok; Min, Sun-Seek; Shin, Yong-Beom; Oh, Min-Kyu; Kim, Moonil
- Abstract
The discrimination learning of multiple odors, in which multi-odor can be associated with different responses, is important for responding quickly and accurately to changes in the external environment. However, very few studies have been done on multi-odor discrimination by animal sniffing. Herein, we report a novel multi-odor discrimination system by detection rats based on the combination of 2-Choice and Go/No-Go (GNG) tasks into a single paradigm, in which the Go response of GNG was replaced by 2-Choice, for detection of toluene and acetone, which are odor indicators of lung cancer and diabetes, respectively. Three of six trained rats reached performance criterion, in 12 consecutive successful tests within a given set or over 12 sets with a success rate of over 90%. Through a total of 1300 tests, the trained animals (N = 3) showed multi-odor sensing performance with 88% accuracy, 87% sensitivity and 90% specificity. In addition, a dependence of behavior response time on odor concentrations under given concentration conditions was observed, suggesting that the system could be used for quantitative measurements. Furthermore, the animals' multi-odor sensing performance has lasted for 45 days, indicating long-term stability of the learned multi-odor discrimination. These findings demonstrate that multi-odor discrimination can be achieved by rat sniffing, potentially providing insight into the rapid, accurate and cost-effective multi-odor monitoring in the lung cancer and diabetes.
- Subjects
ODORS; LUNG cancer; SENSITIVITY &; specificity (Statistics); RATS; DIABETES
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2021, Vol 21, Issue 11, p3696
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s21113696