Sex-specific peptides from exocrine glands stimulate mouse vomeronasal sensory neurons

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7060, 2005, Pages 898-901

  Kimoto, Hiroko ^a   Haga, Sachiko ^a   Sato, Koji ^a   Touhara, Kazushige ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HISTOLOGY; NEUROLOGY;

CHEMICAL SIGNALS; EXOCRINE GLANDS; PHEROMONES; VOMERONASAL ORGANS;

PROTEINS;

EXOCRINE GLAND SECRETING PEPTIDE 1; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EXOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; GENETIC CODE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 27144557079     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04033     Document Type: Article

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