The specification of olfactory neurons

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 453-457

  Ebrahimi, Farah AW ^a   Chess, Andrew ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0032143978     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(98)80031-7     Document Type: Article

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