Estradiol modulates neural response to conspecific and heterospecific song in female house sparrows: An in vivo positron emission tomography study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 12; no. 8; p. e0182875
• Main Authors: Lattin, Christine R, Stabile, Frank A, Carson, Richard E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 23.08.2017; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: 17β-Estradiol; Acoustics; Animal behavior; Animal Communication; Animals; Auditory perception; Behavior; Biology and Life Sciences; Bird songs; Birds; Brain; Brain research; Breeding; Cues; Emission analysis; Emissions; Estradiol; Estradiol - physiology; Experiments; Exposure; Female; Females; Gene expression; Glucose; Glucose metabolism; House sparrow; Imaging; In vivo methods and tests; Information processing; Laboratory animals; Medical imaging; Medicine and Health Sciences; Metabolism; Neural circuitry; Neuroimaging; Neurosciences; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Observations; Perception; Physical Sciences; Physiology; Positron emission; Positron emission tomography; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Properties; Psychological aspects; Research and Analysis Methods; Selectivity; Sex hormones; Song; Songbirds; Sparrows - physiology; Studies; Surgical implants; Tomography; Transplants & implants; United States > US; Connecticut

Although there is growing evidence that estradiol modulates female perception of male sexual signals, relatively little research has focused on female auditory processing. We used in vivo 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to examine the neuronal effects of e...