Molecular biology of olfactory receptors

Essays in Biochemistry

Volumn 33, Issue , 1998, Pages 93-104

  Pilpel, Yitzhak ^a   Sosinsky, Alona ^a   Lancet, Doron ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LIGAND;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032243093     PISSN: 00711365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/bse0330093     Document Type: Article

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