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SUBMITTER: Billing A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7322293 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May/Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Billing Addison A Henrique Correia Marcelo M Kelly Diane A DA Li Geng-Lin GL Bergan Joseph F JF
eNeuro 20200501 3
The brains of male and female mice are shaped by genetics and hormones during development. The enzyme aromatase helps establish sex differences in social behaviors and in the neural circuits that produce these behaviors. The medial amygdala of mice contains a large population of aromatase neurons and is a critical hub in the social behavior network. Moreover, the neural representation of social stimuli in the medial amygdala displays clear sex differences that track developmental changes in soci ...[more]