Estrogen establishes sex differences in androgen accumulation in zebra finch brain
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Estrogen establishes sex differences in androgen accumulation in zebra finch brain.
In zebra finches, androgens stimulate the production of a learned courtship song in males but not in females. Corresponding to this behavioral dimorphism, neural regions controlling the learning and production of song are much larger in males than in females. In two of these song-related brain regions, magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum (MAN) and hyperstriatum ventrale pars cauda...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.06-03-00734.1986