Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2034-2041

  Kruijver, Frank P M ^a   Zhou, Jiang Ning ^a,c   Pool, Chris W ^a   Hofman, Michel A ^a   Gooren, Louis J G ^b   Swaab, Dick F ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; STRIA TERMINALIS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

TERMINALIS;

EID: 0034458072     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.85.5.6564     Document Type: Article

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