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Androgen receptor deficiency alters the arginine-vasopressin sexually dimorphic system in Tfm rats.
Neuroscience - 3 Dec 2013
Allieri F, Spigolon G, Melcangi R C, Collado P, Guillamón A, Gotti S, Panzica G C
Abstract excerpt
In rodents as well as in many other mammalian and non-mammalian species, the arginine-vasopressin (AVP) system includes a parvocellular sexually dimorphic portion located within the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST), the medial amygdaloid nucleus (MeA) and the lateral septum. In this system, males have more cells and denser projections than females, neurons show androgen and estrogen receptors, and...
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