Visualization of odor-induced neuronal activity by immediate early gene expression

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bepari, Asim K ^a,b   Watanabe, Keisuke ^b   Yamaguchi, Masahiro ^c   Tamamaki, Nobuaki ^a   Hirohide, Takebayashi ^b,d  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cnga2; Immediate early gene (IEG); Odorant map; Olfaction; Olfactory bulb

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; PENTYL ACETATE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84868225016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-140     Document Type: Article

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