TRP Channels: It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Montell, Craig ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL C;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; HEAT; HUMIDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSE ORGAN; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEAT; HUMIDITY; SENSE ORGANS; TRPC CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 38849147633     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.12.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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