Testosterone effects on the neuronal ultrastructure in the medial preoptic nucleus of male Japanese quail

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 281-292

  Panzica, G C ^a   Castagna, C ^a   Aste, N ^a   Viglietti Panzica, C ^a   Balthazart, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Androgens; Avian brain; Coturnix japonica; Preoptic area; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSE BODY; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYSOME; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUAIL; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029940828     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0361-9230(95)02135-3     Document Type: Article

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