Distribution of aromatase, estrogen receptor, and androgen receptor mrna in the forebrain of songbirds and nonsongbirds

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 407, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-129

  Metzdorf, Reinhold ^a   Gahr, Manfred ^a,b   Fusani, Leonida ^a  

^a Max Planck Inst V   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avian; Cloning; Forebrain; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; Preoptic area

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FOREBRAIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROBE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CANARIES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLUMBIDAE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033611995     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990428)407:1<115::AID-CNE9>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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