How the olfactory system makes sense of scents

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6852, 2001, Pages 211-218

  Firestein, S ^a  

^a MC 2438 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MICROORGANISMS; ODORS; PROTEINS;

OLFACTORY SYSTEMS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHEROMONE;

OLFACTION;

HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; ODORS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PHEROMONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0035855833     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35093026     Document Type: Review

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