Journal of Endocrinology and Reproduction

R. Grossmann ¹, A. Jurkevich ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Functional Genomics and Bioregulation, Institute of Animal Science, Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Mariensee, 31535 Neustadt, DE

Abstract

The avian neuropeptide arginine vasotocin (AVT) originally characterized as the antidiuretic hormone is produced by neurosecretory cells within the brain. AVT synthesizing neurons in the limbic bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BnST) of chickens are sexually dimorphic and are found solely in males.

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