A spectroscopic mechanism for primary olfactory reception

Chemical Senses

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 773-791

  Turin, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOPHENONE;

ARTICLE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ODORS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIBRATION;

EID: 0030444410     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/21.6.773     Document Type: Article

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