Specific activation of estrogen receptor alpha and beta enhances male sexual behavior and neuroplasticity in male japanese quail

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Seredynski, Aurore L ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^b   Balthazart, Jacques ^a   Charlier, Thierry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3,5 TRIS(4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 PROPYLPYRAZOLE; ARGIPRESTOCIN; AROMATASE; DIARYLPROPIONITRILE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CLOACA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MALE ANIMAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

COTURNIX JAPONICA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; COTURNIX; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 79955042889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018627     Document Type: Article

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