Specific expression pattern of Fos in the accessory olfactory bulb of male mice after exposure to soiled bedding of females

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-195

  Matsuoka, Masato ^a,b   Yokosuka, Makoto ^c   Mori, Yuji ^d   Ichikawa, Masumi ^b,e  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropol Inst N   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c fos; Immunocytochemistry; Olfaction; Pheromone; Vomeronasal system

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; PHEROMONES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0032714569     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(99)00082-6     Document Type: Article

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