The role of Bcl-2 family members in sexual differentiation and adult neural plasticity
Hormonal control of developmental cell death is the best-established mechanism of neural sexual differentiation. For example, the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavemosus (SNB) is a sexually-dimorphic cluster of motoneurons in the lumbar spinal cord that innervates perineal muscles. Testosterone acts du...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2002
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3056297 |