Histological properties of the nasal cavity and olfactory bulb of the Japanese jungle crow corvus macrorhynchos

Chemical Senses

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 581-593

  Yokosuka, Makoto ^a   Hagiwara, Akiko ^a   Saito, Toru R ^a   Tsukahara, Naoki ^b   Aoyama, Masato ^b   Wakabayashi, Yoshihiro ^c   Sugita, Shoei ^b   Ichikawa, Masumi ^d  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Fused olfactory bulb; Jungle crow; Juxtaglomerular cells; Lectin; Nasal cavity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROW; HEMISPHERE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE SEPTUM; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CROWS; JAPAN; LECTINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NASAL CAVITY; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY NERVE; PROTEIN BINDING; QUAIL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

AVES; CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69549084869     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjp040     Document Type: Article

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