Neural distribution of vasotocin receptor mRNA in two species of songbird

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4865-4881

  Leung, Cary H ^a,b   Abebe, Demesew F ^a   Earp, Sarah E ^a   Goode, Christopher T ^a,c   Grozhik, Anna V ^a   Mididoddi, Prathyusha ^a   Maney, Donna L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESOTOCIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOTOCIN RECEPTOR 1; VASOTOCIN RECEPTOR 2; VASOTOCIN RECEPTOR 3; VASOTOCIN RECEPTOR 4;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FINCH; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE RELEASE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82355165079     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1394     Document Type: Article

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