Talk:Olfactory receptor

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[edit] Ligand/odorants?

Rather than binding to specific ligands like most receptors, olfactory receptors bind to structures on odor molecules.

I think this is a confusing statement... Perhaps it would be better to define odorants as molecules that bind to olfactory receptors (as ligands do) eliciting a response? In that case, they would be agonists of ORs, too... -- dockingman^Talk 03:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I concur (at least that's we say in the field anyway). Changed 20070620. Cowbert 21:47, 20 June 2007 (UTC)