Either main or accessory olfactory system signaling can mediate the rewarding effects of estrous female chemosignals in sexually naive male mice

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 755-762

  Korzan, Wayne J ^a   Freamat, Mihael ^a   Johnson, Adam G ^a   Cherry, James A ^a   Baum, Michael J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; Reward circuits; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PLACE PREFERENCE; REWARD EFFECT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHEROMONES; REWARD;

EID: 84887612612     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033945     Document Type: Article

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