Combined behavioral and c-Fos studies elucidate the vital role of sodium for odor detection

Chemical Senses

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 641-647

  Weiler, Elke ^a,b   Deutsch, Swetlana ^b   Apfelbach, Raimund ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C Fos expression; N octanal; Neural activation; Odor detection; Sodium dependency

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; SODIUM;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING DISORDER;

ACETATES; ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CYCLOHEXENES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OLFACTORY BULB; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SMELL; SODIUM; TERPENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33749577542     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjl004     Document Type: Article

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