Transgenic songbirds with suppressed or enhanced activity of CREB transcription factor

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

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7599-7604

  Abe, Kentaro ^a,b   Matsui, Sumiko ^a   Watanabe, Dai ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CREB; Postnatal development; Songbird; Transgenic animal; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CREB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AVIAN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BASAL GANGLION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOTYPE; HEARING; HEREDITY; INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SONGBIRD; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION; WHITE NOISE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FINCH; GENETICS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AVIAN PROTEINS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84935920071     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413484112     Document Type: Article

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