Mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor mRNA expression in the brain of translocated chukar (Alectoris chukar)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 569-574

  Dickens, Molly J ^a   Meddle, Simone L ^b,c   Michael Romero, L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian; Corticosterone; Galliform; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; Paraventricular nucleus; Stress axis; Translocation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ALECTORIS CHUKAR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FOWL; GALLIFORMES; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; STARLING; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 78651428991     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.11.018     Document Type: Article

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