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Effects of Maternal Diet and Exposure to Bisphenol A on Sexually Dimorphic Responses in Conceptuses and Offspring
25 Jul 2012
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Whereas sexual differentiation is considered as the onset of differentiation of the male or female gonads, mounting evidence indicates that sex differences in developmental programming are established as early as the zygotic stage. Genetic and epigenetic differences between the sexes might govern how each responds to shifts in their early environment, including in the uterus or culture dish, as in the case of in...
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