Organization and regulation of sexually dimorphic neuroendocrine pathways

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-203

  Simerly, Richard B ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Neuroscience   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Hypothalamus; Neuroendocrine integration; Sex steroid hormones; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROHORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0032079533     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00191-5     Document Type: Article

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