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Olfactory Sensory Transduction

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Neurobiology

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSA,volume 289))

Abstract

Organisms continuously monitor their environment, employing highly specialized systems such as vision, hearing and olfaction to extract pertinent information from an array of physical stimuli. These physical sensations are then transformed into transduction events.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027, USA

    Marie-Christine Broillet & Stuart Firestein

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    Vincent Torre

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR), Genova, Italy

    Franco Conti

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Broillet, MC., Firestein, S. (1996). Olfactory Sensory Transduction. In: Torre, V., Conti, F. (eds) Neurobiology. NATO ASI Series, vol 289. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5899-6_12

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