Coordinated coexpression of two vomeronasal receptor V2R genes per neuron in the mouse

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 397-408

  Ishii, Tomohiro ^a,b,c   Mombaerts, Peter ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accessory olfactory system; Gene expression; Olfaction; Vomeronasal organ; Vomeronasal receptor

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; V2RF2 GENE; VMN2R1 GENE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MUS;

EID: 78751701272     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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