Endocrine Abstracts

Sexual difference of behavior is primarily attributed by structural sexual dimorphism in the nervous system. Recently, we found two sexually dimorphic systems in the central nervous system: 1) newly identified hypothalamic nucleus expressing estrogen receptor (ER) alpha and 2) gastrin releasing peptide (GRP) system in the spinal cord.Sagittalis nucleus of the hypothalamus (SGN), situated between the arcuate nucleus and ventromedial nucleus, is larger in ...

M Kawata, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan AbstractMitsuhiro Kawata is Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. He received both an MD and a PhD from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and has spent his scientific career at the Rockefeller University and University of Edinburgh. His research interests over time lie in the search for the mechanism of ...