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Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volume 38, 2015

Chemosensory Receptor Specificity and Regulation

Abstract

The senses provide a means by which data on the physical and chemical properties of the environment may be collected and meaningfully interpreted. Sensation begins at the periphery, where a multitude of different sensory cell types are activated by environmental stimuli as different as photons and odorant molecules. Stimulus sensitivity is due to expression of different cell surface sensory receptors, and therefore the receptive field of each sense is defined by the aggregate of expressed receptors in each sensory tissue. Here, we review current understanding on patterns of expression and modes of regulation of sensory receptors.

Keyword(s): feedback, gene regulation, olfaction, stochasticity, taste
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Chemosensory Receptor Specificity and Regulation
Annual Review of Neuroscience 38, 331 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-071714-034145
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