Sex differences in molecular neuroscience: From fruit flies to humans

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-17

  Jazin, Elena ^a   Cahill, Larry ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KISSPEPTIN; KISSPEPTIN 1; PROTEIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIST PROTEIN;

AGING; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC REGULATION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEMATODE; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RODENT; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 72849131622     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2754     Document Type: Review

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