Widespread capacity for steroid synthesis in the avian brain and song system

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5975-5987

  London, Sarah E ^a,c   Monks, D Ashley ^b,d   Wade, Juli ^b   Schlinger, Barney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; NEUROSTEROID; STEROID; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FINCH; GONAD; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SONGBIRD; STEROIDOGENESIS; TELENCEPHALON;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GONADS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SONGBIRDS; STEROIDS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33751521811     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0154     Document Type: Article

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