Cluster analysis of rat olfactory bulb responses to diverse odorants

Chemical Senses

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 639-653

  Falasconi, Matteo ^a   Gutierrez Galvez, Agustin ^b,c   Leon, Michael ^d   Johnson, Brett A ^d   Marco, Santiago ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 deoxyglucose mapping; Cluster analysis; Cluster validity; Olfactory bulb; Olfactory coding

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUZZY SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RAT;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEOXYGLUCOSE; OLFACTORY BULB; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; SMELL;

EID: 84864859930     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjs045     Document Type: Article

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