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Neural expression and post-transcriptional dosage compensation of the steroid metabolic enzyme 17β-HSD type 4

BACKGROUND: Steroids affect many tissues, including the brain. In the zebra finch, the estrogenic steroid estradiol (E(2)) is especially effective at promoting growth of the neural circuit specialized for song. In this species, only the males sing and they have a much larger and more interconnected...

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Autores principales: London, Sarah E, Itoh, Yuichiro, Lance, Valentin A, Wise, Petra M, Ekanayake, Preethika S, Oyama, Randi K, Arnold, Arthur P, Schlinger, Barney A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20359329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-11-47