Seasonal changes in the size of the avian song control nucleus HVC defined by multiple histological markers

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 381, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-261

  Smith, G Troy ^a,b   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

acetylcholinesterase; androgen; projection neurons; songbird; tract tracing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HISTOLOGY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGING;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIRDS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLERA TOXIN; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEOSTRIATUM; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; STAINING AND LABELING; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030983744     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970512)381:3<253::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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