Moxd1 is a marker for sexual dimorphism in the medial preoptic area, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial amygdala

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Tsuneoka, Yousuke ^a   Tsukahara, Shinji ^b   Yoshida, Sachine ^a,c   Takase, Kenkichi ^a,d   Oda, Satoko ^a   Kuroda, Masaru ^a   Funato, Hiromasa ^a,e  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; BNST; Calbindin; Masculinization; Molecular marker; Moxd1; MPOA; SDN

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALBINDIN; CALBINDIN 1; MOXD1 PROTEIN; NEUROPHYSIN; OXYTOCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GENE; GONADECTOMY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MOUSE; MOXD1 GENE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 85032346649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/FNANA.2017.00026     Document Type: Article

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