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Pheromone reception: A complex map of activation in the brain
1Taste and Smell Unit, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-1188, USA. nryba@dir.nidcr.nih.gov
Current Biology : CB
|July 8, 1999
Abstract:
Recent studies of the projection pattern made by sensory neurons involved in mammalian pheromone reception have shown that there is a map of activation in the brain, but this pheromone map appears far more complex than the equivalent map in the main olfactory system responsible for the sense of smell.