Sexual differentiation of the adolescent rodent brain: Hormonal influences and developmental mechanisms

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 203-210

  Juraska, Janice M ^a   Sisk, Cheryl L ^b   DonCarlos, Lydia L ^c  

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

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Amygdala; Cell death; Cortex; Gonadal steroid hormones; Hypothalamus; Myelination; Neurogenesis; Puberty; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

OVARY HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENCE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTEROVENTRAL PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REMODELING; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONNECTOME; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMINIZATION; GLIA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MAMMAL; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTERODORSAL MEDIAL AMYGDALA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RODENT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENCE; AMYGDALA; CELL DEATH; CORTEX; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MYELINATION; NEUROGENESIS; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; RODENTIA; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84883386500     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.05.010     Document Type: Review

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