Word Origin and History for philo- Expand. before vowels phil-, word-forming element meaning loving, fond of, tending to, from Greek philo-, comb. form of philos dear (adj.), friend (n.), from philein to love, of unknown origin. Productive of a great many compounds in ancient Greek.
One way to classify neurons is by the number of extensions that extend from the neuron's cell body (soma). Bipolar neurons have two processes extending from the cell body (examples: retinal cells, olfactory epithelium cells).
The VR receptors, which be-long to the 7 TM GPCR superfamily, do not share signif-Figure 1. Functional anatomy and structure of the olfactory system. (A) Localization of the olfactory apparatus in a human head. The mainolfactory epithelium (MOE), the cribriform plate and the olfactory bulb are squared.he olfactory epithelium of mammals OR genes OR gene structure The common structure of OR genes includes an intronlesscoding region of ~1 kb that is preceded by a variable num-ber of upstream exons and terminated by a polyadenyla-tion signal 0.15â1.5 kb downstream from the stop codon[2, 33, 50â53].