title: Olfactory transduction. Tale of an unusual chloride current.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurahashi
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Yau
mesh_terms: 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*
chemical_list: D018118:Chloride Channels; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D002118:Calcium