Mammalian pheromones: Emerging properties and mechanisms of detection

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 103-109

  Stowers, Lisa ^a   Kuo, Tsung Han ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PHEROMONE; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M5;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; TERRITORIALITY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURON; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; MAMMALS; MICE; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PHEROMONES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84924571113     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2015.02.005     Document Type: Review

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