Olfaction: From odorant molecules to the olfactory cortex

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 101-104

  Menini, Anna ^a   Lagostena, Laura ^a   Boccaccio, Anna ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ODORANT RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENOME; GENOMICS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; ANIMAL; HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SMELL;

EID: 3042764007     PISSN: 08861714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/nips.1507.2003     Document Type: Review

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