Browsing MED_Articles by Keyword "vomeronasal"
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Afferent and efferent projections of the anterior cortical amygdaloid nucleus in the mouse
Wiley (2017-06)The anterior cortical amygdaloid nucleus (ACo) is a chemosensory area of the cortical amygdala that receives afferent projections from both the main and accessory olfactory bulbs. The role of this structure is unknown, ... -
Afferent projections to the different medial amygdala subdivisions: a retrograde tracing study in the mouse
Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2014-12)The medial amygdaloid nucleus (Me) is a key node in the socio-sexual brain, composed of anterior (MeA), posteroventral (MePV) and posterodorsal (MePD) subdivisions. These subdivisions have been suggested to play a different ... -
Cladistic Analysis of Olfactory and Vomeronasal Systems
Frontiers (2011-01-26)Most tetrapods possess two nasal organs for detecting chemicals in their environment, which are the sensory detectors of the olfactory and vomeronasal systems. The seventies’ view that the olfactory system was only devoted ... -
Refining the dual olfactory hypothesis: Pheromone reward and odour experience
Elsevier (2009-06)In rodents, sexual advertisement and gender recognition are mostly (if not exclusively) mediated by chemosignals. Specifically, there is ample evidence indicating that female mice are ‘innately’ attracted by male sexual ... -
Sexual pheromones and the evolution of the reward system of the brain: The chemosensory function of the amygdala
Elsevier (2008-03)The amygdala of all tetrapod vertebrates receives direct projections from the main and accessory olfactory bulbs, and the strong similarities in the organization of these projections suggest that they have undergone a very ...