17β-Estradiol levels in male zebra finch brain: Combining Palkovits punch and an ultrasensitive radioimmunoassay

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-26

  Charlier, Thierry D ^a,b   Po, Kelvin W L ^b   Newman, Amy E M ^b   Shah, Amit H ^b   Saldanha, Colin J ^c   Soma, Kiran K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estrogens; Fadrozole; Hippocampus; NCM; Neurosteroid; Solid phase extraction; Song; Songbird; Steroid; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE; FADROZOLE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FINCH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PALKOVITS PUNCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ESTRADIOL; FADROZOLE; FINCHES; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77952549803     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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