Estradiol modulates brainstem catecholaminergic cell groups and projections to the auditory forebrain in a female songbird

Brain Research

Volumn 1171, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-103

  LeBlanc, Meredith M ^a   Goode, Christopher T ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Elizabeth A ^b   Maney, Donna L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory; Dopamine; Estrogen; Mate choice; Norepinephrine; Song

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; COPULATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURONS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SONGBIRDS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

PASSERI; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 34548613378     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.086     Document Type: Article

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