Post-hatching hormonal modulation of a sexually dimorphic neuromuscular system controlling song in zebra finches

Brain Research

Volumn 929, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 191-201

  Wade, Juli ^a   Buhlman, Lori ^a   Swender, David ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Asymmetry; Estrogen; Sex difference; Songbird

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FADROZOLE; FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; FOREBRAIN; HATCHING; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD; VIRILIZATION; VOCAL CORD; AGING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TRACHEA; VOCALIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SONGBIRDS; TESTOSTERONE; TRACHEA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037040513     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(01)03389-3     Document Type: Article

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