Androgen spares androgen-insensitive motoneurons from apoptosis in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus in rats.

doi:10.1006/hbeh.1996.0047

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Androgen spares androgen-insensitive motoneurons from apoptosis in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus in rats.

Hormones and behavior - 1 Dec 1996

Freeman L M, Watson N V, Breedlove S M

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The spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB) is a sexually dimorphic motor nucleus in the rat lumbar spinal cord. The sex difference arises through the androgenic sparing of the motoneurons and their target muscles from ontogenetic cell death. Indirect evidence suggests that androgen acts on t...

Topics

Androgens
Animals
Apoptosis
Female
Genotype
Male
Motor Neurons
Rats
Receptors, Androgen
Spinal Cord

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