Sex differences in glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA in neonatal rat brain: Implications for sexual differentiation

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 538-552

  Davis, Aline M ^a   Grattan, David R ^a,b   Selmanoff, Michael ^a   McCarthy, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030424439     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1996.0057     Document Type: Article

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