Minireview: Sex Chromosomes and Brain Sexual Differentiation

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1057-1062

  Arnold, Arthur P ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Grisham, William ^a   Chen, Xuqi ^a   Kim, Yong Hwan ^a   Itoh, Yuichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 1442299160     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1491     Document Type: Short Survey

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