[BOOK][B] Vomeronasal chemoreception in vertebrates: a study of the second nose

C Evans - 2003 - books.google.com
… to know of the existence of the vomeronasal organ (WNO), sometimes known as Jacobson's
organ, … The discovery of the structure we now call the vomeronasal organ emerged from …

The role of the vomeronasal organ in mammalian reproduction

RD Estes - 1972 - degruyter.com
… and the accessory olfactory bulb are related to the release of sexual activity, » and that «
the olfactory stimuli related to sexual behavior are those that reach Jacobson's organ in Chirop…

Importance of olfactory and vomeronasal systems for male sexual function

EB Keverne - Physiology & behavior, 2004 - Elsevier
… from these early studies that the vomeronasal system is … of the olfactory mucosa have little
or no effect. Lesions of both … Many studies have manipulated this system to determine the …

MHC class I peptides as chemosensory signals in the vomeronasal organ

T Leinders-Zufall, P Brennan, P Widmayer… - Science, 2004 - science.org
The mammalian vomeronasal organ detects social information about gender, status, and
individuality. The molecular cues carrying this information remain largely unknown. Here, we …

Ultrasensitive pheromone detection by mammalian vomeronasal neurons

T Leinders-Zufall, AP Lane, AC Puche, W Ma… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
… The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is a chemoreceptive organ … signal detection by vomeronasal
neurons remain unclear 3,5 … We conducted two types of experiment to determine whether …

Cells in the vomeronasal organ express odorant receptors but project to the accessory olfactory bulb

O Lévai, T Feistel, H Breer… - Journal of Comparative …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… Recent evidence indicates that the vomeronasal organ (VNO) … ) are expressed in the VNO,
reverse transcriptase-polymerase … To determine whether genes encoding ORs are expressed …

Sensory transduction in vomeronasal neurons: evidence for G alpha o, G alpha i2, and adenylyl cyclase II as major components of a pheromone signaling cascade

A Berghard, LB Buck - Journal of Neuroscience, 1996 - Soc Neuroscience
… Distinct patterns of high-level Gcvo and G42 expression in the VNO neuroepithelium To
determine whether any of the Ga sequences we had cloned is highly expressed in …

Pheromonal communication in vertebrates

PA Brennan, F Zufall - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
… the vomeronasal system is specialized for the detection of non-volatile chemosignals, such
as those … Polymorphic variations in the peptide-binding-groove structure would determine the …

Segregated pathways in the vomeronasal system

M Halpern, C Jia, LS Shapiro - Microscopy research and …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
vomeronasal organ that express one or more of these markers have been shown to
project to the comparable region of the accessory olfactory bulb. This chemoarchitectural …

[HTML][HTML] Variable patterns of axonal projections of sensory neurons in the mouse vomeronasal system

I Rodriguez, P Feinstein, P Mombaerts - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
The vomeronasal system mediates pheromonal effects in mammals. We have employed gene
targeting technology to introduce mutations in a putative pheromone receptor gene, VR i 2…