The molecular biology of olfactory perception

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1996, Pages 135-145

  Mombaerts, P ^a,b   Wang, F ^a   Dulac, C ^a   Vassar, R ^a,c   Chao, S K ^a   Nemes, A ^a   Mendelsohn, M ^a   Edmondson, J ^a   Axel, R ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURON; OLFACTORY SYSTEM;

PHEROMONE RECEPTOR;

EID: 0030441736     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1996.061.01.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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