Vomeronasal organ

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• Senses 26: 1193-1202, 2001 Oxford University Press 2001 The Prairie Vole Vomeronasal Organ is a Target for Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone Celeste R.
• The vomeronasal organ is used in the detection of pheromones in some animals such as mice, although some pheromones are detected by the main olfactory epithelium, and the vomeronasal organ detects other compounds in addition to pheromones.
• The prairie vole vomeronasal organ is a target for gonadotropin-releasing hormone.
• The distribution of the vomeronasal organ is reported here in two mammalian orders: Chiroptera and Primates.
• vomeronasal organ Wikipedia vomeronasal organ The vomeronasal organ (VNO) or Jacobson's organ is an auxiliary olfactory sense organ in some tetrapods.
• These canals allow slow passage of odors from the mouth to the vomeronasal organ located within the hard palate.
• A classification schema for the vomeronasal organ in humans.
• 8 Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved Effects of Vomeronasal Organ Removal on Olfactory Sex Discrimination and Odor Preferences of Female Ferrets S.
• There is also another area in the human nose that we can detect odours with - but until recently, most scientists didn't believe it existed! This is the VNO, which stands for "vomeronasal organ".

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