Experience-Dependent Plasticity Drives Individual Differences in Pheromone-Sensing Neurons

Neuron

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 878-892

  Xu, Pei Sabrina ^a   Lee, Donghoon ^a   Holy, Timothy E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PHEROMONES; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84991093518     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.07.034     Document Type: Article

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