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SUBMITTER: Qiu LR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033927 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qiu Lily R LR Fernandes Darren J DJ Szulc-Lerch Kamila U KU Dazai Jun J Nieman Brian J BJ Turnbull Daniel H DH Foster Jane A JA Palmert Mark R MR Lerch Jason P JP
Nature communications 20180705 1
Sex differences exist in behaviors, disease and neuropsychiatric disorders. Sexual dimorphisms however, have yet to be studied across the whole brain and across a comprehensive time course of postnatal development. Here, we use manganese-enhanced MRI (MEMRI) to longitudinally image male and female C57BL/6J mice across 9 time points, beginning at postnatal day 3. We recapitulate findings on canonically dimorphic areas, demonstrating MEMRI's ability to study neuroanatomical sex differences. We dis ...[more]