Blockade of NMDA receptors during song model exposure impairs song development in juvenile zebra finches

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-98

  Aamodt, Sandra M ^a   Nordeen, Ernest J ^a   Nordeen, Kathy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SINGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029968828     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.0010     Document Type: Article

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