Vocal control neuron incorporation decreases with age in the adult zebra finch

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 10864-10870

  Wang, Niangui ^a,b   Hurley, Patrick ^a   Pytte, Carolyn ^a   Kirn, John R ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Beijing Geriatric Clin Res C   (China)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Aging; Apoptosis; Birdsong; Motor learning; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIRD; BRAIN CELL; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENTATE GYRUS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HIGH VOCAL CENTER NEURON; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; STEREOTYPY; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0037114959     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-24-10864.2002     Document Type: Article

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