The Volume of a Sexually Dimorphic Nucleus in the Ovine Medial Preoptic Area/Anterior Hypothalamus Varies with Sexual Partner Preference

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 478-483

  Roselli, Charles E ^a   Larkin, Kay ^a   Resko, John A ^a   Stellflug, John N ^c   Stormshak, Fred ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSE BODY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALITY;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; MALE; PREOPTIC AREA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SHEEP; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0842269869     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1098     Document Type: Article

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