Male pheromone protein components activate female vomeronasal neurons in the salamander Plethodon shermani

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wirsig Wiechmann, Celeste R ^a   Houck, Lynne D ^b   Wood, Jessica M ^a   Feldhoff, Pamela W ^c   Feldhoff, Richard C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; PHEROMONE DERIVATIVE; PLETHODON MODULATING FACTOR; PLETHODON RECEPTIVITY FACTOR; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SALAMANDER; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; FEMALE; MALE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PROTEINS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; URODELA; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 33747035413     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-26     Document Type: Article

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