Local and global chemotopic organization: General features of the glomerular representations of aliphatic odorants differing in carbon number

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 480, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 234-249

  Johnson, Brett A ^a   Farahbod, Haleh ^a   Xu, Zhe ^a   Saber, Sepideh ^a   Leon, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deoxyglucose; Imaging techniques; Odors; Olfactory bulb

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; CARBON; DEOXYGLUCOSE; ESTER; ETHYL ESTER; KETONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; DEOXYGLUCOSE; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; RATS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT;

EID: 8844275978     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20335     Document Type: Article

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