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MeSH Heading: Pheromones
Tree Number(s): D23.641
Unique ID: D010675
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010675
Annotation: animal, plant & microbes; human = PHEROMONES, HUMAN; SEX PHEROMONES is also available
Scope Note: Chemical substances, excreted by an organism into the environment, that elicit behavioral or physiological responses from other organisms of the same species. Perception of these chemical signals may be olfactory or by contact.
Entry Term(s): Allelochemical; Allelochemicals; Allomone; Allomones; Ectohormones; Kairomone; Kairomones; Pheromone; Semiochemical; Semiochemicals; Synomones
Previous Indexing: Behavior, Animal (1966-1967); Sex Behavior (1966-1967)
Public MeSH Note: 1968
History Note: 1968
Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/05/27

Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage (AD)

adverse effects (AE)

agonists (AG)

analysis (AN)

antagonists & inhibitors (AI)

biosynthesis (BI)

blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemical synthesis (CS)

chemistry (CH)

classification (CL)

deficiency (DF)

economics (EC)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

isolation & purification (IP)

metabolism (ME)

pharmacokinetics (PK)

pharmacology (PD)

physiology (PH)

poisoning (PO)

radiation effects (RE)

standards (ST)

supply & distribution (SD)

therapeutic use (TU)

toxicity (TO)

urine (UR)

Pheromones MeSH Descriptor Data 2025