Perinatal administration of testosterone induces hypertrophy of the anterior commissure in adult male and female rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 119-122

  Larriva Sahd, J ^a   Orozco Estevez H ^b   Condes Lara M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anterior commissure; Hypertrophy; Morphometry; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERINATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0344906246     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00043-3     Document Type: Article

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