State-dependent responses to sex pheromones in mouse

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 74-79

  Stowers, Lisa ^a   Liberles, Stephen D ^b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVIN MONOOXYGENASE 3; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONNECTOME; DECISION MAKING; GENE REPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MATING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ZONA INCERTA; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEX FACTOR; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; MICE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEX FACTORS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84963665121     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2016.04.001     Document Type: Review

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