Influence of testosterone metabolites on song-control system neuroplasticity during photostimulation in adult european starlings (sturnus vulgaris)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Hall, Zachary J ^a,b   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5ALPHA PREGNANE 3,20 DIONE; ANDROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; DOUBLECORTIN; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN REGION; BREEDING; CELL DENSITY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; METABOLITE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARLING; STURNUS VULGARIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CASTRATION; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STARLINGS; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

PASSERI; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84863698710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040060     Document Type: Article

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