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Jacques Balthazart

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1 Alpha-fetoprotein protects the developing female mouse brain from masculinization and defeminization by estrogens. Nat Neurosci 2006 2.22
2 Functional significance of the rapid regulation of brain estrogen action: where do the estrogens come from? Brain Res 2006 1.58
3 Rapid action on neuroplasticity precedes behavioral activation by testosterone. Horm Behav 2008 1.52
4 Seasonal plasticity in the song control system: multiple brain sites of steroid hormone action and the importance of variation in song behavior. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004 1.44
5 The aromatase knock-out mouse provides new evidence that estradiol is required during development in the female for the expression of sociosexual behaviors in adulthood. J Neurosci 2002 1.42
6 Hormonal regulation of brain circuits mediating male sexual behavior in birds. Physiol Behav 2004 1.32
7 The origin of catecholaminergic inputs to the song control nucleus RA in canaries. Neuroreport 2002 1.29
8 Individual variation and the endocrine regulation of behaviour and physiology in birds: a cellular/molecular perspective. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2008 1.26
9 Neuroendocrinology of song behavior and avian brain plasticity: multiple sites of action of sex steroid hormones. Front Neuroendocrinol 2002 1.26
10 Rapid regulation of pain by estrogens synthesized in spinal dorsal horn neurons. J Neurosci 2004 1.21
11 Estradiol rapidly activates male sexual behavior and affects brain monoamine levels in the quail brain. Behav Brain Res 2005 1.17
12 Sexual behavior activity tracks rapid changes in brain estrogen concentrations. J Neurosci 2007 1.16
13 Sexual versus individual differentiation: the controversial role of avian maternal hormones. Trends Endocrinol Metab 2007 1.12
14 Socially induced and rapid increases in aggression are inversely related to brain aromatase activity in a sex-changing fish, Lythrypnus dalli. Proc Biol Sci 2005 1.11
15 Attraction thresholds and sex discrimination of urinary odorants in male and female aromatase knockout (ArKO) mice. Horm Behav 2005 1.11
16 Rapid effects of aromatase inhibition on male reproductive behaviors in Japanese quail. Horm Behav 2005 1.10
17 The activation of birdsong by testosterone: multiple sites of action and role of ascending catecholamine projections. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2003 1.07
18 Applications of manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) to image brain plasticity in song birds. NMR Biomed 2004 1.07
19 Coordinated and dissociated effects of testosterone on singing behavior and song control nuclei in canaries (Serinus canaria). Horm Behav 2005 1.06
20 Japanese quail as a model system for studying the neuroendocrine control of reproductive and social behaviors. ILAR J 2010 1.06
21 Own-song recognition in the songbird auditory pathway: selectivity and lateralization. J Neurosci 2009 1.05
22 Pheromones in birds: myth or reality? J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2010 1.03
23 Spatiotemporal properties of the BOLD response in the songbirds' auditory circuit during a variety of listening tasks. Neuroimage 2005 1.03
24 Social context affects testosterone-induced singing and the volume of song control nuclei in male canaries (Serinus canaria). J Neurobiol 2006 1.02
25 Context-dependent effects of castration and testosterone treatment on song in male European starlings. Horm Behav 2002 1.02
26 A three-dimensional MRI atlas of the zebra finch brain in stereotaxic coordinates. Neuroimage 2008 1.01
27 Differential effects of testosterone on neuronal populations and their connections in a sensorimotor brain nucleus controlling song production in songbirds: a manganese enhanced-magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroimage 2004 1.00
28 Effects of lesions of nucleus taeniae on appetitive and consummatory aspects of male sexual behavior in Japanese quail. Brain Behav Evol 2002 0.99
29 Inhibition of steroid receptor coactivator-1 blocks estrogen and androgen action on male sex behavior and associated brain plasticity. J Neurosci 2005 0.98
30 Acute stress differentially affects aromatase activity in specific brain nuclei of adult male and female quail. Endocrinology 2011 0.97
31 Territorial aggression, circulating levels of testosterone, and brain aromatase activity in free-living pied flycatchers. Horm Behav 2004 0.96
32 Rapid control of male typical behaviors by brain-derived estrogens. Front Neuroendocrinol 2012 0.95
33 The microtubule-associated protein doublecortin is broadly expressed in the telencephalon of adult canaries. J Chem Neuroanat 2007 0.95
34 Human and quail aromatase activity is rapidly and reversibly inhibited by phosphorylating conditions. Endocrinology 2011 0.94
35 How useful is the appetitive and consummatory distinction for our understanding of the neuroendocrine control of sexual behavior? Horm Behav 2007 0.93
36 Endocrine correlates of the breeding asynchrony between two Corsican populations of blue tits (Parus caeruleus). Gen Comp Endocrinol 2005 0.93
37 Presence of aromatase and estrogen receptor alpha in the inner ear of zebra finches. Hear Res 2009 0.93
38 Androgens and estrogens synergistically regulate the expression of doublecortin and enhance neuronal recruitment in the song system of adult female canaries. J Neurosci 2011 0.92
39 MRI in small brains displaying extensive plasticity. Trends Neurosci 2009 0.92
40 Complex modulation of singing behavior by testosterone in an open-ended learner, the European Starling. Horm Behav 2009 0.91
41 Dynamic changes in brain aromatase activity following sexual interactions in males: where, when and why? Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012 0.91
42 Noradrenergic control of auditory information processing in female canaries. Behav Brain Res 2002 0.90
43 The effects of aromatase inhibition on testosterone-dependent conditioned rhythmic cloacal sphincter movements in male Japanese quail. Physiol Behav 2004 0.90
44 Differential effects of global versus local testosterone on singing behavior and its underlying neural substrate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 0.90
45 Neuroanatomical specificity of sex differences in expression of aromatase mRNA in the quail brain. J Chem Neuroanat 2007 0.90
46 The effect of auditory distractors on song discrimination in male canaries (Serinus canaria). Behav Processes 2005 0.89
47 Effects of testosterone on Reelin expression in the brain of male European starlings. Cell Tissue Res 2003 0.89
48 Site-specific effects of anosmia and cloacal gland anesthesia on Fos expression induced in male quail brain by sexual behavior. Behav Brain Res 2008 0.89
49 Dopamine modulates male sexual behavior in Japanese quail in part via actions on noradrenergic receptors. Behav Brain Res 2005 0.88
50 Organizing effects of sex steroids on brain aromatase activity in quail. PLoS One 2011 0.88
51 Sex differences in projections from preoptic area aromatase cells to the periaqueductal gray in Japanese quail. J Comp Neurol 2007 0.88
52 Effect of age and testosterone on autumnal neurogenesis in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Behav Brain Res 2003 0.87
53 Androgen mediation of conditioned rhythmic cloacal sphincter movements in Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica). J Comp Psychol 2005 0.87
54 Electrophysiological and neurochemical characterization of neurons of the medial preoptic area in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). Brain Res 2004 0.87
55 Diversity of mechanisms involved in aromatase regulation and estrogen action in the brain. Biochim Biophys Acta 2010 0.86
56 Steroids and neuroprotection: New advances. Front Neuroendocrinol 2009 0.86
57 A new method for in vitro detection of bromodeoxyuridine in serum: a proof of concept in a songbird species, the canary. PLoS One 2013 0.86
58 Seasonal and hormonal modulation of neurotransmitter systems in the song control circuit. J Chem Neuroanat 2009 0.86
59 Aromatase (estrogen synthase) activity in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord: functional implications. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2003 0.85
60 Early seasonal development of brain song control nuclei in male blue tits. Neurosci Lett 2005 0.85
61 Own song selectivity in the songbird auditory pathway: suppression by norepinephrine. PLoS One 2011 0.84
62 Neuroestrogens rapidly regulate sexual motivation but not performance. J Neurosci 2013 0.84
63 Steroid receptor coactivator SRC-1 exhibits high expression in steroid-sensitive brain areas regulating reproductive behaviors in the quail brain. Neuroendocrinology 2002 0.84
64 Sex differences in the distribution of the steroid receptor coactivator SRC-1 in the song control nuclei of male and female canaries. Brain Res 2003 0.84
65 The medial preoptic nucleus receives vasotocinergic inputs in male quail: a tract-tracing and immunocytochemical study. J Chem Neuroanat 2002 0.83
66 Species differences in the relative densities of D1- and D2-like dopamine receptor subtypes in the Japanese quail and rats: an in vitro quantitative receptor autoradiography study. Brain Behav Evol 2009 0.83
67 Seasonal rewiring of the songbird brain: an in vivo MRI study. Eur J Neurosci 2008 0.82
68 Targeting steroid receptor coactivator-1 expression with locked nucleic acids antisense reveals different thresholds for the hormonal regulation of male sexual behavior in relation to aromatase activity and protein expression. Behav Brain Res 2006 0.82
69 Neural pathways mediating control of reproductive behavior in male Japanese quail. J Comp Neurol 2013 0.82
70 Catecholaminergic inputs to aromatase cells in the canary auditory forebrain. Neuroreport 2004 0.80
71 Birth of neural progenitors during the embryonic period of sexual differentiation in the Japanese quail brain. J Comp Neurol 2012 0.80
72 Distribution of aromatase immunoreactivity in the forebrain of red-sided garter snakes at the beginning of the winter dormancy. J Chem Neuroanat 2002 0.80
73 Immunocytochemical localization of aromatase in sensory and integrating nuclei of the hindbrain in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). J Comp Neurol 2004 0.79
74 Sexual arousal, is it for mammals only? Horm Behav 2010 0.79
75 Dissociable effects of social context on song and doublecortin immunoreactivity in male canaries. Eur J Neurosci 2014 0.79
76 In vivo MR imaging of the seasonal volumetric and functional plasticity of song control nuclei in relation to song output in a female songbird. Neuroimage 2006 0.79
77 Specific activation of estrogen receptor alpha and beta enhances male sexual behavior and neuroplasticity in male Japanese quail. PLoS One 2011 0.78
78 Modulation of hormonal signaling in the brain by steroid receptor coactivators. Rev Neurosci 2005 0.78
79 Rapid activation of phosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinase after sexual stimulation in male mice. Neuroreport 2011 0.78
80 Androgen metabolism and the activation of male sexual behavior: it's more complicated than you think! Horm Behav 2005 0.78
81 Effects of sex steroids on aromatase mRNA expression in the male and female quail brain. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2010 0.78
82 Steroid receptor coactivator 2 modulates steroid-dependent male sexual behavior and neuroplasticity in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). J Neurochem 2011 0.78
83 Testosterone recruits new aromatase-imunoreactive cells in neonatal quail brain. Neuroreport 2010 0.78
84 Rapid increase in aggressive behavior precedes the decrease in brain aromatase activity during socially mediated sex change in Lythrypnus dalli. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2010 0.77
85 Peripubertal proliferation of progenitor cells in the preoptic area of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). Brain Res 2013 0.76
86 Introduction to the chemical neuroanatomy of birdsong. J Chem Neuroanat 2009 0.76
87 Birds return every spring like clockwork, but where is the clock? Endocrinology 2003 0.76
88 Sexual differentiation of sexual behavior and its orientation. Front Neuroendocrinol 2011 0.76
89 C-fos down-regulation inhibits testosterone-dependent male sexual behavior and the associated learning. Eur J Neurosci 2013 0.75
90 Specific innervation of aromatase neurons by substance P fibers in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord in quail. J Comp Neurol 2003 0.75
91 Modulation of testosterone-dependent male sexual behavior and the associated neuroplasticity. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2013 0.75