Sex dimorphism in the avian arginine vasotocin system with special emphasis to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 833-837

  Grossmann, Roland ^a   Jurkevich, Aleksandr ^b   Köhler, Almut ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b Institute of Ecology   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Chicken; Development; Gene expression; Hypothalamus; Immunocytochemistry; In situ hybridization; Neuropeptide; Sex difference; Vasotocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FLUID BALANCE; FOWL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OSMOSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULATION; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0036130059     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00021-1     Document Type: Article

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