Prenatal growth of the human vomeronasal organ

Anatomical Record

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 447-455

  Smith, Timothy D ^a,b   Siegel, Michael I ^b   Mooney, Mark P ^b   Burdi, Alphonse R ^c   Burrows, Annie M ^a,b   Todhunter, John S ^b  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal growth and development; Nasal capsule; Sexual dimorphism; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE SEPTUM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0030981537     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199707)248:3<447::AID-AR18>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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