Olfactory transduction. Tale of an unusual chloride current.
An unusual chloride current seems to play an important role in safeguarding olfactory transduction against an unstable ionic environment, and in nonlinearly amplifying the olfactory signal.
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National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.
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D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D018118:Chloride Channels / Q000378:metabolism*; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D008954:Models, Biological; D018034:Olfactory Receptor Neurons / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*
D018118:Chloride Channels; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D002118:Calcium