Food for song: Expression of C-Fos and ZENK in the zebra finch song nuclei during food aversion learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Tokarev, Kirill ^a,b   Tiunova, Anna ^a   Scharff, Constance ^b   Anokhin, Konstantin ^a  

^a P K ANOKHIN INSTITUTE OF NORMAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZENK PROTEIN; AVIAN PROTEIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINCH; FOOD AVERSION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD MOVEMENT; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; OROPHARYNX; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION; ZENK GENE; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CHICKEN; FEMALE; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CHICKENS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; FEMALE; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79958734874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021157     Document Type: Article

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