Aggressive behaviour and physiological responses to pheromones are strongly impaired in mice deficient for the olfactory G-protein γ-subunit Gγ8

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 3949-3962

  Montani, Giorgia ^a   Tonelli, Simone ^a   Sanghez, Valentina ^a   Ferrari, Pier Francesco ^a,b   Palanza, Paola ^a   Zimmer, Andreas ^c   Tirindelli, Roberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN GAMMA 8 SUBUNIT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNIT; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GGAMMA8 GENE; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84881612282     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.247528     Document Type: Article

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