Ovarian hormones can organize the rat corpus callosum in adulthood

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-177

  Bimonte, Heather A ^a   Mack, Christine M ^b   Stavnezer, Amy Jo ^a   Denenberg, Victor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NEUROGEN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Development; Feminization; Organizational effects; Ovarian hormones; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ESTROGENS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0034733971     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(00)00043-2     Document Type: Article

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