The Boyse and colleagues studies are very important, and contribute to
the findings of Claus Wedekind and colleagues and also to the marvelous
article by Gilbert AN et al:
so: J of Comp Psychol 100.3.262-5 1986.
ti: Olfactory discrimination of mouse strains (Mus musculus) and
major histocompatibility types by humans.
An important issue is, Where in the nasal cavity (if there at all) is
MHC/HLA processing occurring in ways that modulate mate choice?
By this I mean, what domains of the nasal mucosa actually possess Antigen
Presenting Cells that would provide an MHC/HLA-based filtering. Three
domains seem to be possible:
1. Olfactory regions (olf)
2. Vomeronasal regions (vno)
3. Nasal mucosal regions which are neither olf nor vno.
Each of these domains has its own primary efferent neural pathways, and
each of these domains interconnects neurally with the other domains (in
one site or another).
Teresa
Teresa C. Binstock, Researcher
Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy
Denver CO USA
Teresa.Binstock at uchsc.edu
