Publication Date:
1980-02-15
Description:
Guinea pigs were allowed to investigate urine that contained rhodamine, a nonvolatile fluorescent dye. Guinea pigs given free access to dyed urine exhibited fluorescence in their vomeronasal and septal organs but not on their olfactory epithelium. Fluorescence was not seen when unadulterated urine was presented. Thus compounds of low volatility, which do not reach the olfactory epithelium, may stimulate the vomeronasal system and provide information that is normally not provided by gustation or olfaction.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wysocki, C J -- Wellington, J L -- Beauchamp, G K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Feb 15;207(4432):781-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7352288" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Female
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Fluorescent Dyes
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Functional Laterality
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Male
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Nasal Septum/physiology
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*Pheromones
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Sexual Behavior, Animal/physiology
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Smell/*physiology
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Urine/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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