Smell receptors in a mouse nose (IMAGE)

Harvard Medical School

Smell receptors in a mouse nose

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A map of the thousand types of smell receptors in the olfactory tissue of a mouse nose, labeled by a color gradient. The bottom inset shows the precise spatial positions of a tagged subset of receptors.

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Datta Lab

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