Gender-related changes in the avian vasotocin system during ontogeny

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 27-36

  Jurkevich, Aleksandr ^a   Grossmann, Roland ^b   Balthazart, Jacques ^c   Viglietti Panzica, Carla ^d  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Development; Gonadal steroids; Sexual behavior; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARGININE VASOTOCIN; AROMATASE; BIRD SPECIES; DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL STEROID; JAPANESE QUAIL; OESTROGENS; SEXUAL BEHAVIORS; SEXUAL DIFFERENCES; SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATIONS;

AMINO ACIDS;

ARGIPRESTOCIN; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; WATER;

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICKEN; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STRIA TERMINALIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035478075     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.1153     Document Type: Article

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