Sex steroids modulate the signals from volatile female odors in the accessory olfactory bulb of male mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 413, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-15

  Yoshikage, Muroi ^a   Toshiaki, Ishii ^a,b   Seiichi, Komori ^a   Nobuo, Kitamura ^a,b   Nishimura, Masakazu ^a,b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b School of Veterinary Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accessory olfactory bulb; C Fos; Sex steroids; Volatile female odors

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; SEX HORMONE; SEX PHEROMONE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; ORCHIECTOMY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SMELL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846536911     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.11.025     Document Type: Article

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