Increases in Fos-immunoreactivity after exposure to a combination of two male urinary components in the accessory olfactory bulb of the female rat

Brain Research

Volumn 876, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 211-214

  Yamaguchi, Takafumi ^a   Inamura, Kouhei ^a   Kashiwayanagi, Makoto ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accessory olfactory bulb; Fos; Pheromone; Rat; Urine

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLFACTORY BULB; PHEROMONES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0034623173     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02651-2     Document Type: Article

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