Subpallial and hypothalamic areas activated following sexual and agonistic encounters in male chickens

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 344-359

  Xie, Jingjing ^a   Kuenzel, Wayne J ^a   Anthony, Nicholas B ^a   Jurkevich, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the pallial commissure; FOS; Medial extended amygdala; Medial preoptic area; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CHICKENS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77956174397     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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