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Charlotte Cornil

Charlotte Cornil

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Neuroscience

D-Index
37
Citations
4261
World Ranking
8870
National Ranking
107

Overview

Charlotte Cornil is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these broad fields, they have contributed to several subfields including developmental biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, reproductive medicine, genetics, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics centered around animal biology and behavior. These include animal vocal communication and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones, estrogen and related hormone effects, marine animal studies, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and stress responses involving cortisol.

Charlotte Cornil has a number of recent publications that illustrate the scope of their research interests. Notable papers include:

  • Development of Perineuronal Nets during Ontogeny Correlates with Sensorimotor Vocal Learning in Canaries (2020, eNeuro)
  • Consequences of temperature-induced sex reversal on hormones and brain in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) (2020, Hormones and Behavior)
  • Key role of estrogen receptor β in the organization of brain and behavior of the Japanese quail (2020, Hormones and Behavior)
  • Rapid changes in brain estrogen concentration during male sexual behavior are site and stimulus specific (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Perineuronal nets in HVC and plasticity in male canary song (2021, PLoS ONE)

They have published multiple papers in a variety of scientific venues, including:

  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)

The collaboration network of Charlotte Cornil includes frequent co-authors who have contributed significantly to their research output. These collaborators include Jacques Balthazart, Gregory F. Ball, Ednei B. dos Santos, Lucas Court, and Françoise Lenfant.

Best Publications

  • Functional significance of the rapid regulation of brain estrogen action: Where do the estrogens come from?

    Charlotte A. Cornil;Gregory F. Ball;Jacques Balthazart

  • Preoptic aromatase modulates male sexual behavior: slow and fast mechanisms of action.

    Jacques Balthazart;Michelle Baillien;Michelle Baillien;Charlotte A. Cornil;Charlotte A. Cornil;Gregory F. Ball;Gregory F. Ball

  • Estradiol, a key endocrine signal in the sexual differentiation and activation of reproductive behavior in quail.

    Jacques Balthazart;Charlotte A. Cornil;Thierry D. Charlier;Thierry D. Charlier;Mélanie Taziaux

  • Dopamine activates noradrenergic receptors in the preoptic area.

    Charlotte Cornil;Jacques Balthazart;Patrick Motte;Laurent Massotte

  • Rapid control of male typical behaviors by brain-derived estrogens

    Charlotte A. Cornil;Gregory F. Ball;Jacques Balthazart

  • Multiple mechanisms control brain aromatase activity at the genomic and non-genomic level ☆

    Jacques Balthazart;Michelle Baillien;Thierry D. Charlier;Charlotte A. Cornil

  • Estradiol rapidly activates male sexual behavior and affects brain monoamine levels in the quail brain.

    Charlotte A. Cornil;Christina Dalla;Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti;Michelle Baillien

  • Rapid effects of aromatase inhibition on male reproductive behaviors in Japanese quail

    Charlotte A. Cornil;Charlotte A. Cornil;Mélanie Taziaux;Michelle Baillien;Gregory F. Ball

  • Rapid changes in production and behavioral action of estrogens

    Jacques Balthazart;Charlotte Cornil;Mélanie Taziaux;Thierry Charlier

  • Neuroanatomical specificity in the expression of the immediate early gene c‐fos following expression of appetitive and consummatory male sexual behaviour in Japanese quail

    Mélanie Taziaux;Charlotte Cornil;Charlotte Cornil;C. Dejace;L. Arckens

  • Actions of Steroids: New Neurotransmitters.

    Lauren M. Rudolph;Charlotte A. Cornil;Melinda A. Mittelman-Smith;Jennifer R. Rainville

  • Rapid decreases in preoptic aromatase activity and brain monoamine concentrations after engaging in male sexual behavior.

    Charlotte Cornil;C. Dalla;Z. Papadopoulou-Daifoti;M. Baillien

  • Interplay among catecholamine systems: dopamine binds to alpha2-adrenergic receptors in birds and mammals.

    Charlotte A. Cornil;Gregory F. Ball

  • Sex differences in behavioral and neurochemical effects of gonadectomy and aromatase inhibition in rats.

    N. Kokras;N. Pastromas;D. Papasava;C. de Bournonville

  • Human and quail aromatase activity is rapidly and reversibly inhibited by phosphorylating conditions.

    Thierry D. Charlier;Nobuhiro Harada;Jacques Balthazart;Charlotte A. Cornil

  • Neuroestrogens rapidly regulate sexual motivation but not performance.

    Aurore L. Seredynski;Jacques Balthazart;Virginie J. Christophe;Gregory F. Ball

  • D1-like dopamine receptor density in nuclei involved in social behavior correlates with song in a context-dependent fashion in male European starlings

    Sarah A Heimovics;Charlotte A Cornil;Gregory F Ball;Lauren V Riters

  • Is sexual motivational state linked to dopamine release in the medial preoptic area

    Hayley Kleitz-Nelson;Juan Dominguez;Charlotte Cornil;Gregory Ball

  • Rapid behavioural effects of oestrogens and fast regulation of their local synthesis by brain aromatase.

    Charlotte A. Cornil;Thierry D. Charlier

  • The dual action of estrogen hypothesis.

    Charlotte A. Cornil;Gregory F. Ball;Jacques Balthazart

  • Acute Stress Differentially Affects Aromatase Activity in Specific Brain Nuclei of Adult Male and Female Quail

    Molly J. Dickens;Charlotte A. Cornil;Jacques Balthazart

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Charlier
Thierry Charlier Université de Rennes
Annemie Van der Linden
Annemie Van der Linden University of Antwerp
Vincent Seutin
Vincent Seutin University of Liège
Christina Dalla
Christina Dalla National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Ilse Smolders
Ilse Smolders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti
Zeta Papadopoulou-Daifoti National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Luke Remage-Healey
Luke Remage-Healey University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bernard Rogister
Bernard Rogister University of Liège
Philippe Peigneux
Philippe Peigneux Université Libre de Bruxelles
Claude Saegerman
Claude Saegerman University of Liège

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