Endocrine Abstracts

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...