Organizing effects of sex steroids on brain aromatase activity in quail

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Cornil, Charlotte A ^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

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; VOROZOLE; STEROID;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICRODISSECTION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; QUAIL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TUBER CINEREUM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COTURNIX; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM;

AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; MAMMALIA; PHASIANIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COTURNIX; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79955728597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019196     Document Type: Article

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