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Target-independent pattern specification in the olfactory epithelium.
Neuron - 1 Oct 1995
Sullivan S L, Bohm S, Ressler K J, Horowitz L F, Buck L B
Abstract excerpt
In mammals, odors are detected by approximately 1000 different types of odorant receptors (ORs), each expressed by a fraction of neurons in the olfactory epithelium. Neurons expressing a given OR are confined to one of four spatial zones but are distributed randomly throughout that zone. In the olfactory bulb, the axons of neurons expressing different ORs synapse at different sites, giving rise to a highly...
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