The sense of smell: Reception of flavors

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1126, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-6

  Breer, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal wiring; Information processing; Odor coding; Odorant receptor; Olfaction; Olfactory neurons; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; FLAVOR; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING;

EID: 42549110365     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1433.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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