Aromatase expression in the brain of the ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) and comparisons with other galliform birds (Aves, Galliformes)

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-27

  Corfield, Jeremy R ^a   Harada, Nobuhiro ^b   Iwaniuk, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Courtship display; Entopallium; Field L; Hyperpallium; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ENZYME ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONASA UMBELLUS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BREEDING; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; COURTSHIP; ENTOPALLIUM; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FALCIPENNIS CANADENSIS; GALLIFORMES; HYPERPALLIUM; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; STRIA TERMINALIS; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE;

EID: 84873277830     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: 18736300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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