Mombaerts – Rockefeller U.

Neuron Tract Labeling by Genetic Manipulation

       A class of olfactory receptor neurons expressing one 7-tm odor receptor labeled by driving a morphological marker (b-gal expression) only in the neurons expressing that receptor.

receptor neurons in the olfactory epithelium

axons of receptor neurons projecting to glomerular targets in the olfactory bulb

target glomerulus

Olfactory receptor neuron somata