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Published on: April 27, 2013

Reprogramación de las respuestas de quimiotaxis: las neuronas sensoriales definen las preferencias olfativas en C.

E R Troemel1, B E Kimmel, C I Bargmann

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Anatomy, The University of California, San Francisco 94143-0452, USA.

Cell
|November 5, 1997
PubMed
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En C. elegans, la neurona sensorial específica que expresa un receptor de olor determina la respuesta conductual. Este hallazgo aclara cómo la percepción olfativa guía el comportamiento animal.

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