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SUBMITTER: Prince JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2821732 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prince Janet E A JE Cho Jin Hyung JH Dumontier Emilie E Andrews William W Cutforth Tyler T Tessier-Lavigne Marc M Parnavelas John J Cloutier Jean-François JF
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20091101 45
The ability of sensory systems to detect and process information from the environment relies on the elaboration of precise connections between sensory neurons in the periphery and second order neurons in the CNS. In mice, the accessory olfactory system is thought to regulate a wide variety of social and sexual behaviors. The expression of the Slit receptors Robo-1 and Robo-2 in vomeronasal sensory neurons (VSNs) suggests they may direct the stereotypic targeting of their axons to the accessory o ...[more]