Postsynaptic neural activity regulates neuronal addition in the adult avian song control system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 16640-16644

  Larson, Tracy A ^a   Wang, Tsu Wei ^a   Gale, Samuel D ^b   Miller, Kimberly E ^a,c   Thatra, Nivretta M ^a   Caras, Melissa L ^b   Perkel, David J ^a,c   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a  

^a Department of Biology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Pediatric Otolaryngology   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Songbird; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; MUSCIMOL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 4,4-DIFLUORO-4-BORA-3A,4A-DIAZA-S-INDACENE; BORON DERIVATIVE; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; TETRAMETHYLROSAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBUST NUCLEUS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; TARGET CELL; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BORON COMPOUNDS; BRAIN; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS, 3-RING; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCIMOL; NEUROGENESIS; PASSERIFORMES; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84885365684     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310237110     Document Type: Article

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