Growth-deficient vomeronasal organs in the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)

Brain Research

Volumn 1132, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-83

  Smith, Timothy D ^a,b   Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^c   Dennis, John C ^d   Morrison, Edward E ^d   Park, Thomas J ^e  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessory olfaction; Neuroepithelium; VNO

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLE RAT; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MOLE RATS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

HETEROCEPHALUS; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 33846211112     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.11.021     Document Type: Article

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