The pallial basal ganglia pathway modulates the behaviorally driven gene expression of the motor pathway

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2145-2160

  Kubikova, Lubica ^a,b   Turner, Elena A ^a   Jarvis, Erich D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Immediate early gene; Motor driven gene expression; Song; Zebra finch; ZENK

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FINCHES; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34147198660     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05368.x     Document Type: Article

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