Activation of accessory olfactory bulb neurons during copulatory behavior after deprivation of vomeronasal inputs in male rats

Brain Research

Volumn 962, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 232-236

  Kondo, Yasuhiko ^a   Sudo, Takahiko ^a   Tomihara, Kazuya ^a   Sakuma, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accessory olfactory bulb; Medial amygdala; Sexual behavior; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATING; MITRAL CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; RATS; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0037423017     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03970-7     Document Type: Article

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