追随你的鼻子:在嗅觉地图形成中找到轴突路径
1Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Cell
|November 30, 2006
概括
嗅觉感官神经元的身份被映射到轴突连接. 循环AMP (cAMP) 水平和嗅觉受体 (ORs) 指导轴突向和分类,在嗅觉系统中创建一个空间地图.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 发展生物学 发展生物学
背景情况:
- 嗅觉感官神经元 (OSN) 必须在嗅觉球中形成精确的连接,以使嗅觉感知.
- 通过OSN身份转化为特定的轴突向向的机制仍然不完全理解.
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