The human vomeronasal organ. Part VI: A nonchemosensory vestige in the context of major variations of the mammalian vomeronasal organ

Current Neurobiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^a,b   Smith, Timothy D ^b,c  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^c SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemosensory vomeronasal organ; Human VNO; Neurosensory epithelium; Non chemosensory VNO vestige; Receptor free epithelium; VN complex; VNO defined; VNO terminology

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BAT; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; NOSE SEPTUM; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMATE; REPTILE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 79952476349     PISSN: 09759042     EISSN: 09761705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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