Chemotopic, combinatorial, and noncombinatorial odorant representations in the olfactory bulb revealed using a voltage-sensitive axon tracer

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 9977-9988

  Friedrich, Rainer W ^a,c   Korsching, Sigrun I ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Axon tracing; Olfactory coding; Olfactory glomerulus; Optical recording; Pheromone; Voltage sensitive dye; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

17,20BETA DIHYDROXYPREGN 4 EN 3 ONE; PHEROMONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 0032402152     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-23-09977.1998     Document Type: Article

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