Gene switching and odor induced activity shape expression of the OR37 family of olfactory receptor genes

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1813-1824

  Bader, Andrea ^a   Bautze, Verena ^a   Haid, Désirée ^a   Breer, Heinz ^a   Strotmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity; Gene expression; Mouse; Odorant receptor; Olfaction; Patterning

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; NUCLEOTIDE GATED ION CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL;

EID: 78649714419     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07458.x     Document Type: Article

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