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MeSH Heading: Sex Attractants
Tree Number(s): D23.641.800
Unique ID: D012724
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012724
Annotation: human & animal pheromones
Scope Note: Pheromones that elicit sexual attraction or mating behavior usually in members of the opposite sex in the same species.
Entry Term(s): Copulins; Pheromones, Sexual; Sex Attractant; Sex Pheromone; Sex Pheromones; Sexual Pheromone
Previous Indexing: Behavior, Animal (1966-1967); Pheromones (1968-1974); Sex Behavior (1966-1967)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under PHEROMONES 1975-90
Online Note: search PHEROMONES 1968-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under PHEROMONES 1975-90
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2021/06/30

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)

Concept UI: M0019715
Scope Note: Pheromones that elicit sexual attraction or mating behavior usually in members of the opposite sex in the same species.
Terms: Sex Attractants Preferred Term
Term UI T037601
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1975); Sexual Pheromone
Term UI T001090455
Date10/23/2020
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2022); Sex Pheromone
Term UI T000895144
Date02/12/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); Sex Attractant
Term UI T000895145
Date02/12/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); Sex Pheromones
Term UI T037602
Date05/08/1978
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Pheromones, Sexual
Term UI T037603
Date06/11/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992)

Sex Attractants MeSH Descriptor Data 2025