The cellular prion protein is expressed in olfactory sensory neurons of adult mice but does not affect the early events of the olfactory transduction pathway

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 791-797

  Dibattista, Michele ^a,c   Massimino, Maria Lina ^b   Maurya, Devendra Kumar ^a   Menini, Anna ^a   Bertoli, Alessandro ^b   Sorgato, M Catia ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro olfactogram; Olfaction; Olfactory epithelium; PrP C

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT; ODORANT; PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SENSORY NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; PRPC PROTEINS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80054936522     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr054     Document Type: Article

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