Selective enhancement of main olfactory input to the medial amygdala by GnRH

Brain Research

Volumn 1317, Issue , 2010, Pages 46-59

  Blake, Camille Bond ^a   Meredith, Michael ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fos; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Hamster; Medial amygdala; Olfatory bulb; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; GONADORELIN; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CRICETINAE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HOMOCYSTEINE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 75849127530     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.078     Document Type: Article

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