Comparative study of lectin reactivity in the vomeronasal organ of human and nonhuman primates

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 550-560

  Kinzinger, Jonathan H ^a   Johnson, Edward W ^b   Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^c   Bonar, Christopher J ^d   Burrows, Anne M ^e,f   Mooney, Mark P ^f   Siegel, Michael I ^f   Smith, Timothy D ^a,f  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Central Oregon Community College   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^d CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO   (United States)

^e DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Haplorhine; Strepsirrhine; UEA 1; Vomeronasal neuroepithelium

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; ERYTHRINA CRISTAGALLI LECTIN; LECTIN; PEANUT AGGLUTININ; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; SUGAR; ULEX EUROPAEUS AGGLUTININ; ULEX EUROPAEUS AGGLUTININ 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; LECTINS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PAN TROGLODYTES; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

HOMO; LEMURIDAE; LORIDAE; MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 20144376893     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20194     Document Type: Article

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