Detection of estrus by male mice: Synergistic role of olfactory-vomeronasal system

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 477, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 144-148

  Achiraman, Shanmugam ^a   Ponmanickam, Ponnirul ^a   Ganesh, Devaraj Sankar ^a   Archunan, Govindaraju ^a  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

AOS; Estrus detection; Mice; MOS; Urine; VNO

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE; ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATED MALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; METESTRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OVARIECTOMY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RESPONSE TIME; SMELLING; URINALYSIS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; ESTRUS; ESTRUS DETECTION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; TESTOSTERONE; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 77953359601     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.051     Document Type: Article

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