Ultrastructural aspects of olfactory signaling

Chemical Senses

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-311

  Menco, Bert Ph M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

CELL MEMBRANE; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DENDRITE; FREEZE ETCHING; FREEZE FRACTURE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOLOGY; NOSE CAVITY; ODOR; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; CILIA; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROVILLI; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0030912534     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/22.3.295     Document Type: Review

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