The main and accessory olfactory systems of female mice are activated differentially by dominant versus subordinate male urinary odors

Brain Research

Volumn 1402, Issue , 2011, Pages 20-29

  Veyrac, Alexandra ^a   Wang, Guan ^b   Baum, Michael J ^b   Bakker, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hormone; Olfaction; Preference; Vomeronasal system

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INDUCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MONITORING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SMELLING; STRIA TERMINALIS; URINE ODOR; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MUS;

EID: 79960276233     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.05.035     Document Type: Article

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