Early sensory and hormonal experience modulate age-related changes in NR2B mRNA within a forebrain region controlling avian vocal learning

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 82-94

  Singh, Tryambak D ^a   Basham, Mark E ^a   Nordeen, Ernest J ^a   Nordeen, Kathy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MRNA; NMDA receptor; NR1; NR2B; Sensitive period; Song learning; Testosterone; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SINGING;

ANIMALS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SONGBIRDS; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033921970     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4695(200007)44:1<82::AID-NEU8>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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