Effects of long-term flutamide treatment during development in zebra finches

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 418, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-96

  Grisham, William ^a   Park, Sun Hee ^a   Hsia, Jennifer K ^a   Kim, Caroline ^a   Leung, Michael C ^a   Kim, Linda ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiandrogen; Flutamide; Sex differences; Songbird; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; FLUTAMIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE ACTION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SONGBIRD; TESTIS ATROPHY;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FINCHES; FLUTAMIDE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34247145870     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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