Ovarian hormones after postnatal day 20 reduce neuron number in the rat primary visual cortex

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 312-321

  Nuñez, Joseph L ^a   Sodhi, Jagdeep ^a   Juraska, Janice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Neuron number; Ovarian hormones; Rat; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; FLUTAMIDE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MICROMANIPULATOR; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY FUNCTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; NEURONS; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037105842     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.10092     Document Type: Article

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