Activity regulates functional connectivity from the vomeronasal organ to the accessory olfactory bulb

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 7907-7916

  Hovis, Kenneth R ^a,b   Ramnath, Rohit ^a   Dahlen, Jeffrey E ^a   Romanova, Anna L ^a   LaRocca, Greg ^a   Bier, Mark E ^b   Urban, Nathaniel N ^a,b,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MITRAL CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STIMULUS; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTORS, PRESYNAPTIC; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84861914373     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2399-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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