Sexually dimorphic gene expression in mouse brain precedes gonadal differentiation

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 82-90

  Dewing, Phoebe ^a   Shi, Tao ^a,b   Horvath, Steve ^a,b   Vilain, Eric ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MATTEL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain sexual development; Microarray; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HEREDITY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTCOITAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

MURINAE;

EID: 0141888333     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(03)00339-5     Document Type: Article

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