Patch-clamp analysis of voltage-activated and chemically activated currents in the vomeronasal organ of Sternotherus odoratus (stinkpot/musk turtle)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4199-4212

  Fadool, D A ^a   Wachiowiak, M ^a   Brann, J H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Olfaction; Pheromone; Sternotherus odoratus; Turtle; Vomeronasal

Indexed keywords

MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; MUSK; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; IMPEDANCE; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOSE MUCOSA; ODOR; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STIMULATION; TURTLE; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; NASAL MUCOSA; NEURONS; ODORS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TURTLES; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALIA; CATFISH; STERNOTHERUS; STERNOTHERUS ODORATUS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0035745713     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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