Estradiol selectively enhances auditory function in avian forebrain neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 49, 2012, Pages 17597-17611

  Caras, Melissa L ^a   O'Brien, Matthew ^a   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Rubel, Edwin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGING; SPARROW; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DRUG IMPLANTS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; NEURONS; PHOTOPERIOD; PROSENCEPHALON; SPARROWS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84870477893     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3938-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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