Brain processing of the mammary pheromone in newborn rabbits

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 179-188

  Charra, R ^a   Datiche, F ^a   Casthano, A ^a   Gigot, V ^a   Schaal, B ^a   Coureaud, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Habenula; Main olfactory system; Mammary pheromone; Newborn rabbit; Organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis; Sucking

Indexed keywords

MAMMARY PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN FOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY OLFACTORY BULB; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR PYRIFORM CORTEX; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HABENULA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LATERAL PREOPTIC AREA; MAIN OLFACTORY BULB; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MITRAL CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY TRACT; ORGANUM VASCULOSUM OF THE LAMINA TERMINALIS; POSTERIOR PYRIFORM CORTEX; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; TENIA TECTA; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; HABENULA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHEROMONES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RABBITS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 80054836142     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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