Vertebrate odorant receptors

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 647-659

  Zhao, H ^a   Firestein, S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

G protein coupled receptor; Odor; Olfaction; Olfactory

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERMINOLOGY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032712432     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050459     Document Type: Review

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