Molecular biology of odorant receptors in vertebrates

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue , 1999, Pages 487-509

  Mombaerts, Peter ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Odor; Olfaction; Olfactory bulb; Olfactory epithelium; Smell

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032965527     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.22.1.487     Document Type: Review

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