Olfactory axons: a remarkable convergence.
Thousands of neurons expressing a given mouse odorant receptor project to a few glomeruli in the olfactory bulb. New observations on mice expressing small odorant receptor transgenes provide support for the idea that interdependence is involved in the maturation of this remarkable convergence.
Hellman
Asaf
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Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Chess
Andrew
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D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D008164:Luminescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D018034:Olfactory Receptor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D018035:Receptors, Odorant / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D016875:tau Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
D008164:Luminescent Proteins; D018035:Receptors, Odorant; D016875:tau Proteins; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins