Rats discriminate individual cats by their odor: Possible involvement of the accessory olfactory system

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1209-1217

  Staples, Lauren G ^a   Hunt, Glenn E ^a   van Nieuwenhuijzen, Petra S ^a   McGregor, Iain S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

c Fos; Defense; Odor discrimination; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ALERTNESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CAT; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; HABITUATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CATS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL;

EID: 50849142219     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.05.011     Document Type: Review

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