Smell receptors are not always expressed in smell neurons (IMAGE)

New York University

Smell receptors are not always expressed in smell neurons

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Smell receptors are not always expressed in smell neurons. Yellow structures are cells with a smell receptor gene. Some belong to neural tissue (magenta) while others are support cells, which are not neurons (cyan). 

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Kayli Sieber, Bogdan Sieriebriennikov

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