Changes in brain gonadotropin-releasing hormone- and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-like immunoreactivity accompanying reestablishment of photosensitivity in male dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 8-19

  Deviche, Pierre ^a   Saldanha, Colin J ^b   Silver, Rae ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

GnRH; Immunocytochemistry; Infundibulum; P hotorefractoriness; Photoperiodism; Photosensitivity; Preoptic area; Prolactin; Reproduction; Seasonality; VIP

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUNDIBULUM; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0033965657     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7361     Document Type: Article

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