Scents and sensibility: A molecular logic of olfactory perception (Nobel Lecture)

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 38, 2005, Pages 6110-6127

  Axel, Richard ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain research; Fluorescence; Nobel Lecture; Olfactory cells; Receptors

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROSCIENCE; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; MICE; NEUROSCIENCES; NOBEL PRIZE; OLFACTORY BULB; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL;

EID: 25844523169     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200501726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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