From social behavior to neural circuitry: Steroid hormones rapidly modulate advertisement calling via a vocal pattern generator

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 432-441

  Remage Healey, Luke ^a   Bass, Andrew H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenge hypothesis; Membrane receptors; Non genomic; Song; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; GLUCOCORTICOID; STEROID HORMONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TELEOST; VOCALIZATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; BRAIN; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPINAL CORD; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33747044629     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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