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Sexual Dimorphism of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis and the Amygdala

By PhD , DSc (auth.) , Nadya Stefanova MD , Wladimir Ovtscharoff MD

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2000
ISBN
978-3-540-67683-6, 978-3-642-57269-2
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-57269-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2068798 bytes)
Series
Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology 158
Edition
1
Pages
78\87
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Neurosciences; Zoology

Description

The present review summarizes the up-to-date knowledge on the sexual dimorphism of the CNS with special regard to the sexual differentiation of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST) and the amygdala (Am) in rat. The authors provide new evidence for the sexual dimorphism and differentiation of GABAergic, leucine-enkephalin-containing and parvalbumin-immunoreactive neurons in the BST and Am of the rat. Together with testing the gender differences, age-related changes in numbers of the neuronal subpopulations, mentioned above are followed. The authors' results provide morphological and immunocytochemical data that may be used for further studies on sexually dimorphic circuitry and its functional significance.

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