Hormone-dependent neural plasticity in the juvenile and adult song system: What makes a successful male?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 684-703

  Gahr, Manfred ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hormones; Hypothalamic pituitary gonad axis; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; LEPTIN; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AROMATIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGING;

EID: 3242665090     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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