Sex- and gonad-affecting scent compounds and 3 male pheromones in the rat

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 611-621

  Zhang, Jian Xu ^a   Sun, Lixing ^b   Zhang, Jin Hua ^a   Feng, Zhi Yong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

2 heptanone; 4 ethyl phenol; Pheromone; Preputial gland; Rat; Squalene; Urine

Indexed keywords

4 ETHYLPHENOL; BENZALDEHYDE; BETA FARNESENE; CHOLESTEROL; HEPTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ICOSATRIENOIC ACID; INDOLE; LAURIC ACID; MYRISTIC ACID; PHENOL; POLYENE; RICINOLEIC ACID; SEX PHEROMONE; SQUALENE; STEARIC ACID; VALERIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GONADECTOMY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CASTRATION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; KETONES; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCENT GLANDS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SQUALENE;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 53149086305     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn028     Document Type: Article

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