Different importance of the volatile and non-volatile fractions of an olfactory signature for individual social recognition in rats versus mice and short-term versus long-term memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 568-575

  Noack, Julia ^a   Richter, Karin ^a   Laube, Gregor ^b   Haghgoo, Hojjat Allah ^b   Veh, Rüdiger W ^b   Engelmann, Mario ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C Fos synthesis; Olfaction; Olfactory bulb; Recognition memory

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PHEROMONES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78149415678     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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