The vomeronasal cortex - afferent and efferent projections of the posteromedial cortical nucleus of the amygdala in mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 141-158

  Gutiérrez Castellanos, Nicolás ^a,b   Pardo Bellver, Cecília ^a   Martínez García, Fernando ^a   Lanuza, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accessory olfactory bulb; Chemosensory; Olfactory learning; Pheromones; Tract tracing

Indexed keywords

AMINE; BIOTINYLATED DEXTRANAMINE; FLUOROGOLD; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZINC SELENITE;

ACCESSORY OLFACTORY BULB; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; EFFERENT NERVE; EMOTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; POSTEROMEDIAL CORTICAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SENSORY NERVE; SPATIAL LEARNING; VOMERONASAL CORTEX;

ACCESSORY OLFACTORY BULB; CHEMOSENSORY; OLFACTORY LEARNING; PHEROMONES; TRACT TRACING;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; MICE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84891630420     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12393     Document Type: Article

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