Chloride increases response to pheromones and odors in mouse sen...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Sun, 12/27/2009 - 23:00

(Rockefeller University Press) How an individual vomeronasal sensory neuron (VSN) transduces chemical signals into electrical signals has been a mystery.

In the January 2010 issue of the Journal of General Physiology, researchers from the University of Vermont show that chloride acts as a major amplifier for signal transduction in mouse VSNs, increasing the responsiveness to pheromones or odorants.

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