Role of the vomeronasal input in maternal behavior

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 905-926

  Cruz R Del Cerro, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the accessory olfactory tract; Diazepam; GABA(A) BDZ Cl receptor complex; Maternal behavior; Picrotoxin; Sexual dimorphism; Vomeronasal system

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY TRACT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NERVE NET; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RECEPTORS, GABA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0344141209     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(98)00060-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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