Morphological sex differences and laterality in the prepubertal medial amygdala

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 501, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 904-915

  Cooke, Bradley M ^a   Stokas, Michael R ^a   Woolley, Catherine S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Dendrite; Electron microscopy; Glia; Stereology; Synapse

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 34247613139     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21281     Document Type: Article

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