Histo-physiology of the scent-marking glands of the penile pad, anal pouch, and the forefoot in the aardwolf (Proteles cristatus)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 312-326

  Stoeckelhuber, Mechthild ^a   Sliwa, Alexander ^b,c   Welsch, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c Zoological Garden Wuppertal   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aardwolf; Actin; Apocrine secretion; Apoptosis; Cytoskeleton; Holocrine glands; Proliferation; Proteles cristatus (Hyaenidae); Scent glands

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOCRINE GLAND; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCENT GLAND; SEBACEOUS GLAND; SWEAT GLAND;

ACTINS; ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; APOCRINE GLANDS; APOPTOSIS; CARNIVORA; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETON; ECCRINE GLANDS; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KERATINS; MALE; PENIS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; SCENT GLANDS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; HYAENIDAE; PROTELES CRISTATUS;

EID: 0034235734     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0185(20000701)259:3<312::AID-AR80>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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