TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-odor discrimination by rat sniffing for potential monitoring of lung cancer and diabetes
AU - Oh, Yunkwang
AU - Kwon, Ohseok
AU - Min, Sun Seek
AU - Shin, Yong Beom
AU - Oh, Min Kyu
AU - Kim, Moonil
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This work was equally supported by the BioNano Health-Guard Research Center as Global Frontier Project (H-GUARD 2016941340), the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science & ICT (2021M3A9I5021439) and the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) Initiative Research Program (KGM9952112).
Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the BioNano Health-Guard Research Center as Global Frontier Project [H-GUARD 2016941340], the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science & ICT [2021M3A9I5021439] and the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) Initiative Research Program [KGM9952112].
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PY - 2021/6/1
Y1 - 2021/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - 2-choice/no-go
KW - Animal biosensor
KW - Multi-odor discrimination
KW - Olfactory behavior
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U2 - 10.3390/s21113696
DO - 10.3390/s21113696
M3 - Article
C2 - 34073351
AN - SCOPUS:85106397809
VL - 21
JO - Sensors (Switzerland)
JF - Sensors (Switzerland)
SN - 1424-8220
IS - 11
M1 - 3696
ER -