Chemical Signals in Vertebrates: v.7
Proceedings of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates Symposium 7, Held in Tubingen, Germany on 17-22 July 1994
Published in October 1995
Book
Hardback
650 pages
978-0-08-042494-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is the seventh in a series of books on chemocommunication and chemical ecology in animals from fish to humans. This volume grew out of the Symposium on Chemical Signals in Vertebrates VII, hosted in July 1994 in Germany. More than 200 scientists from 22 countries contributed to the symposium and this book. Expression of olfactory receptors, effect of the major histocompatibility complex and of bacteria on semiochemicals are "growing points" of the young disciplines of chemoreception and chemocommunication studies. They are balanced by a strong field of behaviour studies in abroad array of taxa. Investigations of sensory inputs deal with olfaction, vomolfaction, taste and terminal nerve. The breadth of the topics covered attests to the vigour and importance of the study of chemical signals in vertebrates, including, of course, humans.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
59 tables, 156 line illustrations, 55 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-08-042494-1 (9780080424941)
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Content
Part 1 Structural and physicochemical aspects of chemosensory and related systems: comparative aspects of vertebrate taste cell microvillar structures, K. Reutter; on the development of taste buds of the human fetal tongue, M. Witt et al; the role of serotonin as a neuromodulator in vertebrate taste buds, S.D. Roper; morphology of the vomeronasal organ in two South American monkeys ("Saguinus labiatus" and "Cebuella pygmaea", Callitrichidae) - histology and lectin histochemistry, C.S. Evans and E.F. Grigorieva; microvillous and ciliated receptor cells in the olfactory epithelium of the Australian lungfish, "Neoceratodus forsteri" (Krefft 1870), A. Hansen et al. Part 2 Odours and pheromones - their impact on development and social interactions in animals: olfactory biology, social behaviour and ecophysiology - an integrated marsupial study, D.M. Stoddart; seasonal, sexual and dietary induced variations in the sternal scent secretion in the Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), M. Salamon; on the nature and action of the rabbit nipple-search pheromone - a review, R. Hudson and H. Distel; lambs' individual odour signatures - mosaic hypothesis, R.H. Porter et al; amniotic fluid odour in neonatal adaptation - a summary of recent research in ammals, B. Schaal et al. Part 3 Olfactory sensitivity, learning, aversion and memory formation: induced olfactory sensitivity in rodents - a general phenomenon, V.V. Voznessenskaya et al; olfaction in male mice after gonadectomy, V.T. Troitskaya et al; olfactory deficit induced by the murine staggerer mutation - behavioural data, C. Baudoin et al; vomeronasal organ removal eliminates odour preference in bank voles, (Clethrionomys glareolus), M. Kruczek; methodological questions in the study of individual conspecifics, H.M. Schellinck and R.E. Brown. Part 4 Immunology, odours and behaviour in humans: regulation of soluble MHC class 1 molecules, N. Zavazava et al; MHC-associated urinary chemosignals in mice, F. Eggert et al; influence of the menstrual cycle on the excretion of soluble MHC molecules in humans, B. Wobst et al; MHC-molecules and urine odour formation, D. Luszyk et al; chemical analysis of urinary chemosignals in humans, H.J. Bestmann et al. Part 5 Supplement: role of excess thyroxin and growth hormone in postnatal increase of surface area and receptor neuron number in the olfactory epithelium of growing rats, E. Meisami et al.