Experience facilitates vomeronasal and olfactory influence on Fos expression in medial preoptic area during pheromone exposure or mating in male hamsters

Brain Research

Volumn 941, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 91-106

  Meredith, Michael ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; C fos; Mating; Medial preoptic area; Olfactory; Pheromone; Vomeronasal

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; GENDER; HAMSTER; MALE; MATING; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; STRIA TERMINALIS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEARNING; MALE; OLFACTORY BULB; PHEROMONES; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0037150757     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)02613-6     Document Type: Article

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