Diminished FoxP2 levels affect dopaminergic modulation of corticostriatal signaling important to song variability

Neuron

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1464-1476

  Murugan, Malavika ^a   Harward, Stephen ^a   Scharff, Constance ^b   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN DARPP 32; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SONGBIRD; SPIKE WAVE; STRIATE CORTEX;

EID: 84890493080     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.09.021     Document Type: Article

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