Identification of the origin of catecholaminergic inputs to HVc in canaries by retrograde tract tracing combined with tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 117-133

  Appeltants, Didier ^a   Absil, Philippe ^a   Balthazart, Jacques ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Behav Neuroendocrinol Grp   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; High vocal center; Hyperstriatum ventrale pars caudale; Norepinephrine; Serinus canaria; Song system

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIRD; BRAIN REGION; CANARY; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CANARIES; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LATEX; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSPHERES; NOREPINEPHRINE; TELENCEPHALON; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0034096597     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-0618(99)00054-X     Document Type: Article

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