Brain Sexual Differentiation and Requirement of SRY: Why or Why Not?
Brain sexual differentiation is orchestrated by precise coordination of sex steroid hormones. In some species, programming of select male brain regions is dependent upon aromatization of testosterone to estrogen. In mammals, these hormones surge during the organizational and activational periods tha...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2017.00632/full |