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 ...