Sexual differentiation of the human hypothalamus

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 511, Issue , 2002, Pages 75-105

  Swaab, Dick F ^a   Chung, Wilson C J ^a,b   Kruijver, Frank P M ^a   Hofman, Michael A ^a   Ishunina, Tatjana A ^a,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c KURSK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; GALANIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROTIRELIN; TAU PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; BISEXUALITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CADAVER; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; EMBRYO; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXHIBITIONISM; FEMALE; GENDER; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEREDITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PEDOPHILIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREOPTIC AREA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SRY GENE; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSSEXUALISM; TRUE HERMAPHRODITISM; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036921928     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0621-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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