Puberty increases excitatory synapse markers in the medial amygdala
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Androgen receptors mediate masculinization of astrocytes in the rat posterodorsal medial amygdala during puberty.
Astrocytes in the posterodorsal portion of the medial amygdala (MePD) are sexually dimorphic in adult rats: males have more astrocytes in the right MePD and more elaborate processes in the left MePD than do females. Functional androgen receptors (ARs) are required for masculinization of MePD astrocytes, as these measures are demasculinized in adult males carrying the testicular feminization mut...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Neuroscience
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1662-453X
DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.04.00031