Absence of postnatal testosterone fails to demasculinize the male rat's corpus callosum

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 252-255

  Mack, Christine M ^a   McGivern, Robert F ^b   Hyde, Lynn A ^a   Denenberg, Victor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Postnatal; Prenatal; Sex; Testosterone; Testosterone surge

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030565463     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(96)00093-4     Document Type: Article

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