Encoding gender and individual information in the mouse vomeronasal organ

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5875, 2008, Pages 535-538

  He, Jie ^a   Ma, Limei ^a   Kim, SangSeong ^a   Nakai, Junichi ^b   Yu, C Ron ^a  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM SENSITIZER; CALMODULIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; PHEROMONE DERIVATIVE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

CALCIUM; OLFACTORY CUE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; RODENT; URINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; URINALYSIS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHEROMONES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 42549088179     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154476     Document Type: Article

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