Sensing odorants and pheromones with chemosensory receptors

Olfaction is a critical sensory modality that allows living things to acquire chemical information from the external world. The olfactory system processes two major classes of stimuli: (a) general odorants, small molecules derived from food or the environment that signal the presence of food, fire,...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Annual review of physiology 2009-01, Vol.71 (1), p.307-332
Hauptverfasser:	Touhara, Kazushige, Vosshall, Leslie B
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Chemoreceptor Cells - physiology Humans Insecta Mice Molecular biology Odorants Olfactory Pathways - physiology Pheromones Physiology Receptors, Odorant - physiology Sensory integration disorders Signal Transduction - physiology Smell
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