Urine-derived compound evokes membrane responses in mouse vomeronasal receptor neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2856-2862

  Moss, Robert L ^a   Flynn, Robert E ^a   Shen, Xin Ming ^a   Dudley, Carol ^a   Shi, Jiming ^a   Novotny, Milos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MATING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URINALYSIS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0030966920     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.5.2856     Document Type: Article

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