Endocrine Abstracts

Factors influencing gender during early development, i.e., the feeling to be male or female, are prenatal hormones and compounds that change the levels of these hormones, such as anticonvulsants. While an influence of genetic factors must be present, an influence of postnatal social factors has not been established. In rodents, masculinization of the brain in development is due to oestrogens that are formed by aromatization of testosterone. In sexual differentiation of the hum...