PMID- 22679420
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121002
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1662-5129 (Electronic)
IS  - 1662-5129 (Linking)
VI  - 6
DP  - 2012
TI  - Contribution of pheromones processed by the main olfactory system to mate 
      recognition in female mammals.
PG  - 20
LID - 10.3389/fnana.2012.00020 [doi]
LID - 20
AB  - Until recently it was widely believed that the ability of female mammals (with 
      the likely exception of women) to identify and seek out a male breeding partner 
      relied on the detection of non-volatile male pheromones by the female's 
      vomeronasal organ (VNO) and their subsequent processing by a neural circuit that 
      includes the accessory olfactory bulb (AOB), vomeronasal amygdala, and 
      hypothalamus. Emperical data are reviewed in this paper that demonstrate the 
      detection of volatile pheromones by the main olfactory epithelium (MOE) of female 
      mice which, in turn, leads to the activation of a population of glomeruli and 
      abutting mitral cells in the main olfactory bulb (MOB). Anatomical results along 
      with functional neuroanatomical data demonstrate that some of these MOB mitral 
      cells project to the vomeronasal amygdala. These particular MOB mitral cells were 
      selectively activated (i.e., expressed Fos protein) by exposure to male as 
      opposed to female urinary volatiles. A similar selectivity to opposite sex 
      urinary volatiles was also seen in mitral cells of the AOB of female mice. 
      Behavioral data from female mouse, ferret, and human are reviewed that implicate 
      the main olfactory system, in some cases interacting with the accessory olfactory 
      system, in mate recognition.
FAU - Baum, Michael J
AU  - Baum MJ
AD  - Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston MA, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20120605
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Neuroanat
JT  - Frontiers in neuroanatomy
JID - 101477943
PMC - PMC3367429
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - ferret
OT  - human
OT  - hypothalamus
OT  - mouse
OT  - vomeronasal organ
EDAT- 2012/06/09 06:00
MHDA- 2012/06/09 06:01
PMCR- 2012/01/01
CRDT- 2012/06/09 06:00
PHST- 2012/04/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/05/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/06/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/06/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/06/09 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2012/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fnana.2012.00020 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Neuroanat. 2012 Jun 5;6:20. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2012.00020. eCollection 
      2012.