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The sense of smell, its signalling pathways, and the dichotomy of cilia and microvilli in olfactory sensory cells

Smell is often regarded as an ancillary perception in primates, who seem so dominated by their sense of vision. In this paper, we will portray some aspects of the significance of olfaction to human life and speculate on what evolutionary factors contribute to keeping it alive. We then outline the fu...

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Autores principales: Elsaesser, Rebecca, Paysan, Jacques
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1995455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17903277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-8-S3-S1