The expressed localization of rat putative pheromone receptors

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-118

  Takigami, Shu ^a,b   Osada, Toshiya ^c   Yoshida Matsuoka, Junko ^a   Matsuoka, Masato ^a   Mori, Yuji ^b   Ichikawa, Masumi ^a  

^a Tokyo Metoropolitan Inst N   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Fac Biosci Biotech   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical sense; G protein; Microvilli; Olfaction; Polyclonal antibody; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMORECEPTOR; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; CHEMORECEPTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0032847783     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00582-0     Document Type: Article

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