Catecholaminergic inputs to aromatase cells in the canary auditory forebrain

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1727-1730

  Appeltants, Didier ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^b   Balthazart, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Catecholamines; NCM; Serinus canaria

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; STEROID; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANARY; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; ENZYME METABOLISM; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CANARIES; CATECHOLAMINES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 4043059468     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000135920.75925.1e     Document Type: Article

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