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#1 fadlone

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Posted 21 March 2009 - 12:14 PM

hi everyone
I need some help, I was asked to design & describe an experiment that will show the mechanism of the olfactory system in the molecular level with the knowledge that was known 20 years ago .
I realy need some ideas so please any one that can help is welcome

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Posted 28 March 2009 - 11:46 PM

Please refresh my memory and tell me what exactly the state of research was 20 years ago - which methods were known back then? ;)

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Posted 29 March 2009 - 03:07 AM

View Postfadlone, on Mar 21 2009, 10:14 PM, said:

hi everyone
I need some help, I was asked to design & describe an experiment that will show the mechanism of the olfactory system in the molecular level with the knowledge that was known 20 years ago .
I realy need some ideas so please any one that can help is welcome


20 years ago: piercing electrodes in the sensory cells and waiting for action potentials if a suitable scent was provided....
And the biochemical processes were also known to a large extent. Both not really molecular.

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...except casandra's that belong to the funniest, most interesting and imaginative (or over-imaginative?) ones, I suppose.





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