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- The vomeronasal organ (VNO), or Jacobson's organ, is the paired auxiliary olfactory (smell) sense organ located in the soft tissue of the nasal septum...
- The vomeronasal cartilage (or Jacobson's cartilage) is a narrow strip of cartilage, low on the medial wall of the nasal cavity. It lies between the septal...
- Vomeronasal receptors are a class of olfactory receptors that ****tively function as receptors for pheromones. Pheromones have evolved in all animal phyla...
- Witt, M.; Hummel, T. (2006). Vomeronasal Versus Olfactory Epithelium: Is There a Cellular Basis for Human Vomeronasal Perception?. International Review...
- behavior facilitates the transfer of pheromones and other scents into the vomeronasal organ (VNO, or Jacobson's organ) located above the roof of the mouth...
- Three distinct families of vomeronasal receptors, ****tively pheromone sensing, have been identified in the vomeronasal organ named V1Rs, V2Rs, and V3Rs...
- cartilage (lesser alar cartilage, sesamoid, or accessory cartilage), and vomeronasal cartilage (Jacobson's cartilage). The nasal cartilages ****ociate with...
- possibility that the vomeronasal system works in parallel or independently from generic olfactory inputs has not been ruled out yet. Vomeronasal sensory neurons...
- since these animals breathe through their mouths. Amphibians also have a vomeronasal organ, lined by olfactory epithelium, but, unlike those of amniotes,...
- bones. It also articulates with the septal cartilage of the nose. The vomeronasal organ, also called Jacobson's organ, is a chemoreceptor organ named for...