Cell death in the sexually dimorphic dorsal preoptic area/anterior hypothalamus of perinatal male and female ferrets

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 242-252

  Park, Joong Jean ^a   Tobet, Stuart A ^b   Baum, Michael J ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Pyknotic cells; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASCULINITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERRETS; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; MALE; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032520101     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(19980215)34:3<242::AID-NEU4>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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