Sexual Differentiation of Neuronal Circuitry in the Neuroendocrine Hypothalamus
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• Estrogen or aromatizable androgen exerts potent influences on modulating neural development and neural circuit formation in developing sex steroid-sensitive neuroendocrine hypothalamus. Sex steroids can act as a neurotropic factor on neural tissues, stimulating axonal and dendritic growth and synapse formation. Sex steroids are involved in regulation of expression of certain structural proteins and their messenger ribonucleic acids in the hypothalamic neurons, which could affect neuropil organization. These organizational actions of sex steroids seem to induce permanent sexual difference in neuronal circuitry driving neuroendocrine and behavioral functions of the hypothalamus. (Biomed Rev 1997; 7: 5-15)
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