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List of works by Kiran K. Soma

3β-HSD in songbird brain: subcellular localization and rapid regulation by estradiol.

scientific article published on 27 September 2010

A low carbohydrate, high protein diet suppresses intratumoral androgen synthesis and slows castration-resistant prostate tumor growth in mice.

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A maternal high-fat, high-sucrose diet has sex-specific effects on fetal glucocorticoids with little consequence for offspring metabolism and voluntary locomotor activity in mice

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Acute and chronic effects of an aromatase inhibitor on pair-maintenance behavior of water-restricted zebra finch pairs.

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Acute and chronic effects of an aromatase inhibitor on territorial aggression in breeding and nonbreeding male song sparrows

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Aggressive encounters differentially affect serum dehydroepiandrosterone and testosterone concentrations in male Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus).

scientific article published on 17 July 2009

Aggressive interactions differentially modulate local and systemic levels of corticosterone and DHEA in a wild songbird

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Aggressive interactions rapidly increase androgen synthesis in the brain during the non-breeding season.

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Analysis of steroids in songbird plasma and brain by coupling solid phase extraction to radioimmunoassay.

scientific article published on 24 August 2007

Androgen Regulation of the Mesocorticolimbic System and Executive Function.

scientific article published on 5 June 2018

Androgen regulation of hypothalamic neurons containing gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a cichlid fish: integration with social cues

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Androgen-metabolizing enzymes show region-specific changes across the breeding season in the brain of a wild songbird

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Avoiding the 'costs' of testosterone: ecological bases of hormone-behavior interactions

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Brain aromatase, 5 alpha-reductase, and 5 beta-reductase change seasonally in wild male song sparrows: relationship to aggressive and sexual behavior

scientific article published in September 2003

Changes in pituitary and adrenal sensitivities allow the snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), an Arctic-breeding song bird, to modulate corticosterone release seasonally.

scientific article published on July 1998

Colony-Specific Differences in Endocrine and Immune Responses to an Inflammatory Challenge in Female Sprague Dawley Rats

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Combined aromatase inhibitor and antiandrogen treatment decreases territorial aggression in a wild songbird during the nonbreeding season

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Concepts derived from the Challenge Hypothesis

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Corticosterone and cortisol binding sites in plasma, immune organs and brain of developing zebra finches: intracellular and membrane-associated receptors

scientific article published on 26 February 2010

Corticosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone have opposing effects on adult neuroplasticity in the avian song control system.

scientific article published on September 2010

Corticosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone in songbird plasma and brain: effects of season and acute stress

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Cortisol and corticosterone in immune organs and brain of European starlings: developmental changes, effects of restraint stress, comparison with zebra finches.

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

Cortisol and corticosterone in the songbird immune and nervous systems: local vs. systemic levels during development

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Cross-modal integration in a dart-poison frog

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DHEA and estradiol levels in brain, gonads, adrenal glands, and plasma of developing male and female European starlings ⬇️

scientific article published on June 21, 2011

DHEA effects on brain and behavior: insights from comparative studies of aggression.

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Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) increases territorial song and the size of an associated brain region in a male songbird

scientific article published in March 2002

Dehydroepiandrosterone and corticosterone are regulated by season and acute stress in a wild songbird: jugular versus brachial plasma.

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Dehydroepiandrosterone in songbird plasma: seasonal regulation and relationship to territorial aggression

scientific article published in August 2001

Dehydroepiandrosterone metabolism by 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/Delta5-Delta4 isomerase in adult zebra finch brain: sex difference and rapid effect of stress

scientific article published on 11 December 2003

Developmental programming of the HPA and HPG axes by early-life stress in male and female song sparrows.

scientific article published on 26 November 2013

Differential activation of endocrine-immune networks by arthritis challenge: Insights from colony-specific responses

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Early-life antibiotic treatment enhances the pathogenicity of CD4+ T cells during intestinal inflammation.

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Effects of aggressive encounters on plasma corticosteroid-binding globulin and its ligands in white-crowned sparrows.

scientific article published on 8 July 2009

Effects of aging on executive functioning and mesocorticolimbic dopamine markers in male Fischer 344 × brown Norway rats

scientific article published on 28 August 2018

Effects of corticosterone and DHEA on doublecortin immunoreactivity in the song control system and hippocampus of adult song sparrows

scientific article published in January 2014

Effects of nutritional stress during different developmental periods on song and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in zebra finches.

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Effects of water restriction on reproductive physiology and affiliative behavior in an opportunistically-breeding and monogamous songbird, the zebra finch.

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Elevated corticosterone levels in stomach milk, serum, and brain of male and female offspring after maternal corticosterone treatment in the rat.

scientific article published in September 2010

Estrogen contributes to seasonal plasticity of the adult avian song control system

scientific article published in February 2004

Extra-adrenal glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids: evidence for local synthesis, regulation, and function.

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Fasting increases aggression and differentially modulates local and systemic steroid levels in male zebra finches.

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Glucocorticoid Production in Lymphoid Organs: Acute Effects of Lipopolysaccharide in Neonatal and Adult Mice

scientific article published in 2021

Glucocorticoid production in the thymus and brain: Immunosteroids and neurosteroids

scientific article published in 2021

Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) and gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (GnIH) in the songbird hippocampus: regional and sex differences in adult zebra finches.

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

Hippocampal volume does not change seasonally in a non food-storing songbird

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Hormones and Territorial Behavior during Breeding in Snow Buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis): An Arctic-Breeding Songbird ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis changes allow seasonal modulation of corticosterone in a bird ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

Identification of Avian Corticosteroid-binding Globulin (SerpinA6) Reveals the Molecular Basis of Evolutionary Adaptations in SerpinA6 Structure and Function as a Steroid-binding Protein

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Inhibition of hippocampal aromatization impairs spatial memory performance in a male songbird

scientific article published on 08 October 2013

Isoflurane stress induces region-specific glucocorticoid levels in neonatal mouse brain

scientific article published in 2022

Local glucocorticoid production in lymphoid organs of mice and birds: Functions in lymphocyte development.

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

Locally elevated cortisol in lymphoid organs of the developing zebra finch but not Japanese quail or chicken.

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

Lymphoid organs of neonatal and adult mice preferentially produce active glucocorticoids from metabolites, not precursors

scientific article published on 7 May 2016

Measurement of 11-dehydrocorticosterone in mice, rats and songbirds: Effects of age, sex and stress

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Multiple measures elucidate glucocorticoid responses to environmental variation in predation threat

scientific article published on 30 January 2011

Neural responses to aggressive challenge correlate with behavior in nonbreeding sparrows.

scientific article published on October 2005

Neuroendocrine regulation of long-term pair maintenance in the monogamous zebra finch.

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Neuronal Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) and Astrocytic Gonadotrophin Inhibitory Hormone (GnIH) Immunoreactivity in the Adult Rat Hippocampus.

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

Neuropeptide Y and orexin immunoreactivity in the sparrow brain coincide with seasonal changes in energy balance and steroids

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

Neuroprogesterone: key to estrogen positive feedback?

scientific article published on 03 August 2007

Neurosteroids and brain sexual differentiation

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Neurosteroids, immunosteroids, and the Balkanization of endocrinology.

scientific article published on 08 April 2008

Non-breeding feather concentrations of testosterone, corticosterone and cortisol are associated with subsequent survival in wild house sparrows

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Non-invasive administration of 17β-estradiol rapidly increases aggressive behavior in non-breeding, but not breeding, male song sparrows

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Oestrogen regulates male aggression in the non-breeding season

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Plasma DHEA levels in wild, territorial red squirrels: seasonal variation and effect of ACTH.

scientific article published on 11 May 2008

Preparing to migrate: expression of androgen signaling molecules and insulin-like growth factor-1 in skeletal muscles of Gambel's white-crowned sparrows

scientific article published on 08 December 2018

Pubertal development of estradiol-induced hypothalamic progesterone synthesis

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Rapid Effects of Estradiol on Aggression in Birds and Mice: The Fast and the Furious

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Rapid Effects of an Aggressive Interaction on Dehydroepiandrosterone, Testosterone and Oestradiol Levels in the Male Song Sparrow Brain: a Seasonal Comparison.

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Rapid and widespread effects of 17β-estradiol on intracellular signaling in the male songbird brain: a seasonal comparison.

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

Rapid effects of 17β-estradiol on aggressive behavior in songbirds: Environmental and genetic influences

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Rapid effects of aggressive interactions on aromatase activity and oestradiol in discrete brain regions of wild male white-crowned sparrows

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Rapid effects of estradiol on aggression depend on genotype in a species with an estrogen receptor polymorphism.

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Rapid estrogen regulation of DHEA metabolism in the male and female songbird brain.

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Recent advances in behavioral neuroendocrinology: insights from studies on birds.

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Regulation of local steroidogenesis in the brain and in prostate cancer: lessons learned from interdisciplinary collaboration.

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Sample preparation and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for multiple steroids in mammalian and avian circulation

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Seasonal changes in androgen receptor immunoreactivity in the song nucleus HVc of a wild bird

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Sex Steroid Levels and AD‐Like Pathology in 3xTgAD Mice ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2013

Sex differences in DHEA and estradiol during development in a wild songbird: Jugular versus brachial plasma.

scientific article published on 06 March 2008

Sex steroid profiles and pair-maintenance behavior of captive wild-caught zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).

scientific article published on 26 November 2015

Sex steroid profiles in zebra finches: Effects of reproductive state and domestication.

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Social regulation of the brain-pituitary-gonadal axis

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Soft song during aggressive interactions: seasonal changes and endocrine correlates in song sparrows

scientific article published on 10 August 2012

Spring and autumn territoriality in song sparrows: same behavior, different mechanisms?

scientific article published in February 2002

Steroid concentrations in plasma, whole blood and brain: effects of saline perfusion to remove blood contamination from brain

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Steroid profiling reveals widespread local regulation of glucocorticoid levels during mouse development

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Stress in the wild: chronic predator pressure and acute restraint affect plasma DHEA and corticosterone levels in a songbird

scientific article published on 9 October 2012

Territorial aggression and hormones during the non-breeding season in a tropical bird.

scientific article published on January 2004

Testosterone and Corticosterone in the Mesocorticolimbic System of Male Rats: Effects of Gonadectomy and Caloric Restriction

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Testosterone and year-round territorial aggression in a tropical bird.

scientific article published on January 2000

The hypothalamus and adrenal regulate modulation of corticosterone release in redpolls (Carduelis flammea--an arctic-breeding song bird).

scientific article published in March 1998

Transient and permanent effects of suboptimal incubation temperatures on growth, metabolic rate, immune function and adrenocortical responses in zebra finches

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Tyramide Signal Amplification Permits Immunohistochemical Analyses of Androgen Receptors in the Rat Prefrontal Cortex

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Year-round territorial aggression is independent of plasma DHEA in the European nuthatch Sitta europaea

scientific article published on 9 October 2012

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