The size of the splenium of the rat corpus callosum: Influence of hormones, sex ratio, and neonatal cryoanesthesia

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 295-303

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

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

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Cryoanesthesia; Development; Gonadal hormones; Hypothermia; Neonatal; Rat; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRYOANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 19244378825     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199812)33:4<295::AID-DEV1>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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