ZENK protein regulation by song in the brain of songbirds

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 393, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 426-438

  Mello, Claudio V ^a   Ribeiro, Sidarta ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Avian; Immediate early gene; Memory; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; FOWL; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIRDS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CANARIES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KINETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOSTRIATUM; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032550271     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980420)393:4<426::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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