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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-7-12
pubmed:abstractText
The courtship solicitation display (CSD) of the female canary is a model to study estrogen dependent auditory preferences for male songs. The forebrain auditory-vocal nucleus, HVC, is part of the circuit that determines such preferences. To further develop this model we show that bilateral excitotoxic lesions of the medial part of HVC involving between 18-60% of the bilateral nucleus are behaviorally effective while complete unilateral lesions are not. Further, we show that animals recover their song preferences over a period of several months after the lesion. This functional recovery does not involve anatomical recovery of the HVC. Even 9 months after the lesion, the HVC size of these females was similar to that of females sacrificed 2 days after the lesion and thus was 40 +/- 8% smaller compared to normal females. Further, ipsilaterally, the lesion procedure transiently disturbed the neurochemistry, such as GAD-mRNA expression, in the part of HVC that did not undergo cell death. These results suggest that the integrity of the lateral part of at least one HVC is required to perform CSD in response to relevant auditory stimuli.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0022-3034
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
52
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-13
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Recovery of song preferences after excitotoxic HVC lesion in female canaries.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Psychophysiologie et d'Ethologie, Université Paris X., 92000 Nanterre, France. frederique.halle@u-Paris10.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article