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Sensory Transduction in Insect Olfactory Receptors

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Biochemistry of Sensory Functions

Abstract

Sensory transduction means the conversion of a physical or chemical stimulus into the excitation of a sensory (or receptor) cell. This process involves a number of steps which can be fully understood only by a combined effort of biophysicists, biochemists, morphologists and physiologists. To study sensory transduction it is also worthwhile to compare sensory systems adapted to different stimulus modalities, since the receptor organs differ considerably depending on their adequate form of stimulus energy.

Dedicated to Peter Karlson, who chaired this lecture. Almost 20 years ago in Tübingen on the Neckar, he introduced his neighbour Dietrich Schneider to Adolf Butenandt and his group, thereby igniting the cooperation between a sensory physiologist and biochemists.

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Kaissling, KE. (1974). Sensory Transduction in Insect Olfactory Receptors. In: Jaenicke, L. (eds) Biochemistry of Sensory Functions. Colloquium der Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie 25.–27. April 1974 in Mosbach/Baden, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66012-2_15

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