Functional cloning and reconstitution of vertebrate odorant receptors

Life Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 19-20, 2001, Pages 2199-2206

  Touhara, Kazushige ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloning; Odorant; Olfactory; Receptor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0035815176     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(01)01006-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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