PMID- 21484946
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120315
LR  - 20111118
IS  - 1097-0029 (Electronic)
IS  - 1059-910X (Linking)
VI  - 74
IP  - 12
DP  - 2011 Dec
TI  - A detailed morphological study of the vomeronasal organ and the accessory 
      olfactory bulb of cats.
PG  - 1109-20
LID - 10.1002/jemt.21002 [doi]
AB  - The organization of the vomeronasal system (VNS) of fetal, newborn, and adult 
      cats was investigated by microdissection and microscopic examination of sections 
      stained conventionally or with lectins (UEA-1, LEA) or antibodies against 
      proteins Galpha(i2) (associated with vomeronasal receptor type1) and Galpha(o) 
      (associated with receptor vomeronasal receptor type2). The feline VNS is 
      morphologically similar to that of other mammals. Staining with lectins and 
      anti-Galpha(i2) was uniform throughout the sensory epithelium of the vomeronasal 
      organ, and throughout the nervous and glomerular layers of the accessory 
      olfactory bulb (AOB); anti-Galpha(o) stained no VNS tissue. This organization places 
      the cat together with several other domestic or farm animals (dog, horse, sheep, 
      goat, pig) in a group of mammals with just a single path of communication between 
      the sensory epithelium of the vomeronasal organ and AOB, in contrast to the 
      two-path model found in rodents and other mammals (in which apical and basal 
      sensory epithelium layers project to rostral and caudal AOB areas, respectively). 
      However, the cat differs from the sheep and pig in that the development of its 
      VNS is still incomplete at birth.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
FAU - Salazar, Ignacio
AU  - Salazar I
AD  - Department of Anatomy and Animal Production, Unit of Anatomy and Embryology, 
      Faculty of Veterinary, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo 27002, Spain. 
      ignacio.salazar@usc.es
FAU - Sanchez-Quinteiro, Pablo
AU  - Sanchez-Quinteiro P
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20110411
PL  - United States
TA  - Microsc Res Tech
JT  - Microscopy research and technique
JID - 9203012
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Cats
MH  - Female
MH  - Histocytochemistry
MH  - Immunohistochemistry
MH  - Male
MH  - Microscopy
MH  - Olfactory Bulb/*anatomy & histology
MH  - Vomeronasal Organ/*anatomy & histology
EDAT- 2011/04/13 06:00
MHDA- 2012/03/16 06:00
CRDT- 2011/04/13 06:00
PHST- 2010/12/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/01/31 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/04/13 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/04/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/03/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1002/jemt.21002 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Microsc Res Tech. 2011 Dec;74(12):1109-20. doi: 10.1002/jemt.21002. Epub 2011 Apr 
      11.