Responses to sulfated steroids of female mouse vomeronasal sensory neurons

Chemical Senses

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 849-858

  Celsi, Fulvio ^a   D'errico, Anna ^a,b   Menini, Anna ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium imaging; Odor coding; Olfaction; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

17BETA DIHYDROEQUILIN 3 SULFATE; 5ALPHA ANDROSTAN 3BETA OL 16 ONE SULFATE; ALLOPREGNANOLONE SULFATE; CALCIUM; CORTICOSTERONE 21 SULFATE; CORTISONE 21 SULFATE; EPIPREGNANOLONE SULFATE; EPITESTOSTERONE SULFATE; ESTRADIOL DISULFATE; HYDROCORTISONE 21 SULFATE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE 4A; PHOSPHODIESTERASE IV; PREGNANOLONE SULFATE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN V1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; VOMERONASAL SENSORY NEURON;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 4; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; STEROIDS; SULFATES; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; XANTHENES;

EID: 84867753465     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjs068     Document Type: Article

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