The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
altered ability or failure of the olfactory receptor neurons to adapt to ambient conditions by time-dependent modification in the sensitivity to a given odorant stimulus, as seen in the decline of the sensory response during prolonged odor stimulation; a major mechanism for the rapid calcium-calmodulin-mediated desensitization of the CNG channel