Genes and ligands for odorant, vomeronasal and taste receptors

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 263-278

  Mombaerts, Peter ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOPHENONE; AMINO ACID; CITRONELLAL; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; EUGENOL; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEPTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LIMONENE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PHEROMONE; SALICIN; STRYCHNINE; SUCROSE;

BITTER TASTE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ODORANT RECEPTOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE BUD; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; VOMERONASAL RECEPTOR GENE;

STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA;

EID: 1842464122     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1365     Document Type: Review

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