Seasonal changes in androgen receptor immunoreactivity in the song nucleus HVc of a wild bird

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 409, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 224-236

  Soma, Kiran K ^a   Hartman, Vesta N ^a   Wingfield, John C ^a   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian; PG 21; Plasticity; Season; Songbird; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL DENSITY; CONDITIONING; FOWL; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; STAINING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CELL COUNT; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033612567     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990628)409:2<224::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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