High-throughput microarray detection of vomeronasal receptor gene expression in rodents

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Xiaohong ^a   Marcucci, Florencia ^a   Firestein, Stuart ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Developmental dynamics; Gene expression profiling; Microarray; Neuroscience; V1R; V2R; Vomeronasal receptor

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054015806     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00164     Document Type: Article

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