Both olfactory epithelial and vomeronasal inputs are essential for activation of the medial amygdala and preoptic neurons of male rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 199, Issue , 2011, Pages 225-234

  Dhungel, S ^a   Masaoka, M ^b   Rai, D ^a   Kondo, Y ^a,c   Sakuma, Y ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Olfactory epithelium; Olfactory preference; Preoptic area; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 83055186685     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.09.051     Document Type: Article

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