Ca2+-activated Cl- currents are dispensable for olfaction

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 763-769

  Billig, Gwendolyn M ^a,b   Pál, Balázs ^a   Fidzinski, Pawel ^a   Jentsch, Thomas J ^a,c  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORIDE ION; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; TMEM16B PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; 129 MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 79960843311     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2821     Document Type: Article

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