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Specialized region adjacent to the dorsocaudal main olfactory bulb receiving input from the vomeronasal organ. Axons of vomeronasal sensory neurons are bundled in the vomeronasal nerve and terminate in accessory olfactory bulb glomeruli where they form synapses with the dendrites of mitral cells, the first-order relay neurons in the accessory olfactory system.
Axons from vomeronasal sensory neurons expressing the same vomeronasal receptor converge onto a small number of glomeruli in the accessory olfactory bulb.
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(2008). Accessory Olfactory Bulb. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_26
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