Experience with songs in adulthood reduces song-induced gene expression in songbird auditory forebrain

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 330-335

  McKenzie, Tammy L B ^a   Hernandez, Alexandra M ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Egr 1; Melospiza melodia; Zenk

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEARING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SONGBIRDS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33748949932     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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