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Chemical Receptor Sensory Systems explores chemosenses through the lens of pharmacologic theory, and how chemosensory systems, from the molecular level to the behavior of organi… Read more
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PART 1 Foundational Concepts
1. Introduction: What Makes the Chemical Sensory Systems Different from Other Sensory Systems?
2. Historical Perspectives: Development of Conceptual Frameworks for Studying Taste and Olfaction
3. Principles of Receptor Pharmacology as They Relate to the Chemical Senses
PART 2 Vertebrate Taste
4. Development of the Taste Receptor Concept
5. Classification of Tastant Receptors
6. Evolution of Taste
7. In Vitro Pharmacology of Tastant Receptors
8. The Taste Bud: The Sensory Organelle for Taste
9. Innervation of the Taste Bud
10. Taste Signal Coding Logic
11. In Vivo Measurement of Taste
12. Discriminability: The Link between Taste and Receptor Occupancy
13. Genetics of Taste 14. Taste and Pathology
PART 3 Vertebrate Olfaction
15. What Distinguishes Olfaction from Taste?
16. Evolution of Olfaction
17. Discovery and Classification of Odorant Receptors
18. Pharmacologic Characterization of Odorant-Receptor Interactions
19. Pharmacokinetics of Mucosa Complicates Translation from Recombinant Cell-based Pharmacology to In Vivo Olfaction
20. Neurology of Mammalian Olfactory Systems
21. Processing of Olfactory Signals Implicit in Peripheral and Central Structure and Function
22. Olfactory Cues and Behavioral Responses
23. Genetics of Olfaction
24. Olfaction and Pathology
PART 4 Special Topics in the Chemosenses
28. Pheromones and the Vomeronasal Organ
29. Insect Chemosensory Biology
30. Detection of Chemical Signals by Aquatic Organisms
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