Evidence that norepinephrine influences responses to male courtship song and activity within song control regions and the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus in female European starlings

Brain Research

Volumn 1149, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-140

  Riters, Lauren V ^a   Pawlisch, Benjamin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetitive behavior; Birdsong; Communication; Female perception; Mate choice; Song control nucleus

Indexed keywords

2 BROMO N (2 CHLOROETHYL) N ETHYLBENZYLAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MATING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STARLING;

ADRENERGIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; BENZYLAMINES; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STARLINGS; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 34247539526     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.02.059     Document Type: Article

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