Olfactory contribution to Fos expression during mating in inexperienced male hamsters

Chemical Senses

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-267

  Fernandez Fewell, Gwen D ^a,b   Meredith, Michael ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; ZINC SULFATE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FOS; MALE; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0031777897     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/23.3.257     Document Type: Article

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