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Sex in the brain (Supported by <emphasis role="italic">Endocrine Connections</emphasis>)

ea0031s5.4 | Sex in the brain (Supported by <emphasis role="italic">Endocrine Connections</emphasis>) | SFEBES2013

Hormone-dependent chromatin modifications regulating sexually differentiated animal behaviour

Pfaff Donald

Among all brain functions, the most strongly sexually differentiated are those which are directly related to reproduction. In addition to neuroendocrine controls of pituitary hormone release, we consider reproductive behaviors whose expression depends on steroid hormones. The hormone-dependent transcriptional activations in hypothalamic neurones long known to be required for female-specific reproductive behaviour, lordosis (Drive, MIT Press, 1999) involve binding to specific D...