A comparative study of sex difference in calbindin neurons among mice, musk shrews, and Japanese quails

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 631, Issue , 2016, Pages 63-69

  Moe, Yadanar ^a   Tanaka, Tomoko ^a   Morishita, Masahiro ^a   Ohata, Ryoko ^a   Nakahara, Chihiro ^a   Kawashima, Takaharu ^b   Maekawa, Fumihiko ^a,b   Sakata, Ichiro ^a   Sakai, Takafumi ^a   Tsukahara, Shinji ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calbindin; Japanese quail; Mouse; Musk shrew; Sexually dimorphic nucleus

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN 1; CALBINDIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX JAPONICA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC NUCLEI; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUNCUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; COTURNIX; METABOLISM; PURKINJE CELL; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHREW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CALBINDINS; COTURNIX; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PURKINJE CELLS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHREWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84982105818     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.08.018     Document Type: Article

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