Of pheromones and kairomones: What receptors mediate innate emotional responses?

Anatomical Record

Volumn 296, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1346-1363

  Fortes Marco, Lluis ^a   Lanuza, Enrique ^a   Martinez Garcia, Ferando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

2,5 dihydro 2,4,5 trimethylthiazoline; Defensive behavior; Mouse; Olfactory receptors; Socio sexual behavior; Vomeronasal receptors

Indexed keywords

FORMYLPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; FORMYLPEPTIDE RECEPTOR LIKE 1; FORMYLPEPTIDE RECEPTOR LIKE 2; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HORMONES AND HORMONE ANALOGS; KAIROMONE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; TRACE AMINE ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNIFFING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MUS; RATTUS;

2,5-DIHYDRO-2,4,5-TRIMETHYLTHIAZOLINE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; MOUSE; OLFACTORY RECEPTORS; SOCIO-SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOMERONASAL RECEPTORS;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMOTIONS; FEAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL; THIAZOLES; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84882570003     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22745     Document Type: Article

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