figure 1: Mammalian Vomeronasal Organ
figure 2: Snake Vomeronasal Organ (Jacobson's Organ)
figure 3: Human Vomeronasal Organ
figure 4: Connections of VNO and Main Olfactory Neurons

• VNO Function: Pheromone Communication
  
• Access of stimulus chemicals
  
• Stimulus molecules
• VNO Sensitivity
  
• Molecular Receptors
  
• Specialist versus Generalist Functions
  
• Information pathway to the brain
  
• Behavioral consequences of VNO Removal
  
• Nervus terminalis
  
• Human Vomeronasal Function
  

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Brief Topics

• General description Anatomy and Distribution
  
• The Human VNO Function
  
• Vomeronasal Receptor (VR) Genes
• Transduction
  
• Function
  
• Central Neural Connections
• Central Neural Response
  
• Sensitivity and Selectivity
  
• Nervus terminalis
  
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