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News Physiol Sci 2: 203-208, 1987;
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News in Physiological Sciences, Vol 2, 203-208, Copyright © 1987 by International Union of Physiological Sciences

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The Olfactory System as a Molecular Descriptor

J Chanel

The olfactory mucosa has a limited variety of membrane receptor sites, diversely distributed from one olfactory cell to another. The distribution pattern might provide an activation scheme that is spatially organized for each odorant. The distinct topological arrangement would then constitute a molecular descriptor of the odorant.




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