Distribution and subcellular localization of glucocorticoid receptor-immunoreactive neurons in the developing and adult male zebra finch brain

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 354-361

  Shahbazi, Mahin ^a   Schmidt, Manfred ^a   Carruth, Laura L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid receptor (GR); Immunohistochemistry; Song control system (SCS); Songbird; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FINCH; HIPPOCAMPUS; HVC NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL PART OF THE BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEUS PARAVENTRICULARIS MAGNOCELLULARIS; NUCLEUS PREOPTICUS MEDIALIS; NUCLEUS ROBUSTUS ARCOPALLII; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SONG NUCLEUS; TANIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 83555173405     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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