Fos-like immunoreactivity in catecholaminergic brain nuclei after territorial behavior in free-living song sparrows

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 163-170

  Maney, Donna L ^a,b   Ball, Gregory F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Canary; HVc; Songbird; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN STEM; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEARNING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CATECHOLAMINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SONGBIRDS; TERMINOLOGY; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 0037828380     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.10227     Document Type: Article

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