Effects of nutritional stress during different developmental periods on song and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in zebra finches

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 285-293

  Kriengwatana, B ^a   Wada, H ^a   Schmidt, K L ^a   Taves, M D ^b   Soma, K K ^b   MacDougall Shackleton, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Avian; Corticosterone; Developmental stress hypothesis; Dexamethasone; HPA; Juvenile; Song learning; Vocal performance

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FOOD; HATCHLING; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; JUVENILE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; FINCH; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FINCHES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84896875054     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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