Olfactory Cilia Use Extracellular Glucose to Fuel Odor Transduction
Material below summarizes the article Energy Requirements of Odor Transduction in the Chemosensory Cilia of Olfactory Sensory Neurons Rely on Oxidative Phosphorylation and Glycolytic Processing of Extracellular Glucose, published on June 7, 2017, in JNeurosci and authored by Pablo S. Villar, Ricardo Delgado, Cecilia Vergara, Juan G. Reyes, and Juan Bacigalupo.
Organelles are specialized subcellular structures that serve specific functions in all eukaryotic cells.
Most of them, such as the mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum, are found in the cytoplasm surrounded by their own lipid membranes, which are not connected to the plasma membrane.
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