Chapter IV Immediate-early gene (IEG) expression mapping of vocal communication areas in the avian brain

Handbook of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 19, Issue , 2002, Pages 59-101

  Mello, Claudio V ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(field) L; 1AHV; A; AAc; AC; ACM; Ai; anterior commissure; archistriatum; Area X; area X of the paleostriatum; Av; caudal hyperstriatum ventrale; caudal paleostriatum; caudolateral and caudomedial hyperstriatum ventrale; caudomedial neostriatum; Cb; central nucleus of the anterior archistriatum; central nucleus of the lateral neostriatum; cerebellum; CHV; clHV and cmHV; complex including the oval nucleus of the anterior neostriatum and surrounds; complex including the oval nucleus of the hyperstriatum ventrale and surrounds; DLM; DM; DMm; DMP; dorsal part of the lateral mesencephalic nucleus; dorsocaudal neostriatum; dorsomedial nucleus of ICo; dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus; ex; extensions of LPOm, H, hyperstriatum; field L subdivisions; hippocampus; Hp; HV; HVo; hyperstriatum ventrale; IAN; ICo; intercollicular nucleus of the mesencephalon; intermediate archistriatum; l and mMAN; L1, L2a, L2b and L3; lamina hyperstriatalis; lateral and medial subdivisions of the magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum; lateral nucleus of the anterior hyperstriatum ventrale; lateral nucleus of the anterior neostriatum; LH; LPO; LPOm; magnocellular nucleus of the dorsomedial thalamus; magnocellular nucleus of the parolfactory lobe; medial nucleus of the dorsolateral thalamus; MLd; NAoc; NCM; Ndc; neostriatum intermedium pars dorsolateralis; NIDL; NIf; NLc; nucleus avalanche; nucleus interfacialis; nucleus ovoidalis of the thalmus; nucleus uvaeformis; nXIIts; Ov; parolfactory lobe; Pc; primary telencephalic auditory area; RA; robust nucleus of the archistriatum; tracheosyringeal subdivision of the hypoglossal nucleus; Uva; VA; VAH; VAN; VAP; VLN; VMH; VMN; vocal nucleus of the anterior hyperstriatum ventrale; vocal nucleus of the anterior neostriatum; vocal nucleus of the anterior paleostriatum; vocal nucleus of the archistriatum; vocal nucleus of the lateral neostriatum; vocal nucleus of the medial hyperstriatum ventrale; vocal nucleus of the medial neostriatum

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EID: 3142722467     PISSN: 09248196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-8196(02)80015-X     Document Type: Article

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