Combinatorial co-expression of pheromone receptors, V2Rs
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Co-expression of putative pheromone receptors in the sensory neurons of the vomeronasal organ.
Two large and divergent families of G-protein-coupled receptors (V1Rs and V2Rs) are expressed in subsets of neurons in the vomeronasal organ. These receptors are likely to mediate pheromone responses, but it appears that many V2R genes may encode expressed pseudogenes rather than functional proteins. Therefore we have raised antibodies to representative V2Rs and show labeling of vomeronasal neu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurochemistry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-3042,1471-4159
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04877.x