High-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the mouse vomeronasal organ

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 693-696

  Mucignat, Carla ^a   Benati, Donatella ^b   Righetti, Claudia ^b   Zancanaro, Carlo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c Istituto di Anatomia ed Istologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accessory olfactory system; Analysis; Chemoreception; Composition; Major urinary protein; Sex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; BETAINE; CHOLINE; CITRIC ACID; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; TAURINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MICE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 16644392467     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh073     Document Type: Article

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