Thyroid hormone determines the start of the sensitive period of imprinting and primes later learning

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yamaguchi, Shinji ^a   Aoki, Naoya ^a   Kitajima, Takaaki ^a   Iikubo, Eiji ^a   Katagiri, Sachiko ^a   Matsushima, Toshiya ^b   Homma, Koichi J ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; DOPAMINE; LIOTHYRONINE; NORADRENALIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEROTONIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE; TYPE 2 IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CAPILLARY; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEIODINATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GALLUS GALLUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID HORMONE METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LEARNING; THYROID HORMONES; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

AVES;

EID: 84867013298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2088     Document Type: Article

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