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Nature

Title:		How the olfactory system makes sense of scents
Author(s):		Firestein S;
Address:		"Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New york, New York 10027, USA. sjf24@columbia.edu"
Journal Title:		Nature
Year:		2001
Volume:		413
Issue:		6852
Page Number:		211 - 218
DOI:		10.1038/35093026
ISSN/ISBN:		0028-0836 (Print) 0028-0836 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The human nose is often considered something of a luxury, but in the rest of the animal world, from bacteria to mammals, detecting chemicals in the environment has been critical to the successful organism. An indication of the importance of olfactory systems is the significant proportion - as much as 4% - of the genomes of many higher eukaryotes that is devoted to encoding the proteins of smell. Growing interest in the detection of diverse compounds at single-molecule levels has made the olfactory system an important system for biological modelling"
Keywords:		Animals Humans Odorants Olfactory Receptor Neurons/physiology Pheromones/physiology Signal Transduction Smell/*physiology Vomeronasal Organ/physiology;
Notes:		"MedlineFirestein, S eng Review England 2001/09/15 Nature. 2001 Sep 13; 413(6852):211-8. doi: 10.1038/35093026"