Appetitive and Consummatory Sexual and Agonistic Behaviour Elicits FOS Expression in Aromatase and Vasotocin Neurones within the Preoptic Area and Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis of Male Domestic Chickens

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 232-243

  Xie, J ^a   Kuenzel, W J ^a   Sharp, P J ^b   Jurkevich, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agonistic behaviour; Arginine vasotocin; Aromatase; FOS; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; AROMATASE; PROTEIN FOS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CHICKENS; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; POULTRY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 79951687371     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: 13652826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2011.02108.x     Document Type: Article

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