Reliable sex and strain discrimination in the mouse vomeronasal organ and accessory olfactory bulb

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 34, 2013, Pages 13903-13913

  Tolokh, Illya I ^a   Fu, Xiaoyan ^a   Holy, Timothy E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXISM; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS; URINALYSIS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84882627364     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0037-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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