Meanings of vomeronasal organ in English

However, several mechanistic aspects of sensory signaling in the vomeronasal organ remain unclear.

The researchers said they bred female mice without a gene critical to the vomeronasal organ's function.

The trpc2 gene encodes an ion channel involved in pheromonal detection and is found in the vomeronasal organ.

But some scientists suspected that mammals could only detect pheromones with specialized sensory apparatus called the vomeronasal organ, which humans don't have.

It turns out female mice need the vomeronasal organ to tell the sexes apart, just as males have in earlier studies, the researchers said.

The vomeronasal organ, found in the noses of some animals but not in people or higher primates, is a key processing center for pheromones.