Sunday 5 April 2015

How Gender is Determined in the Brain During Prenatal Development

In a study, published in iNature Neuroscience/i, Dr. Margaret McCarthy from the University of Maryland and colleagues studied brain development in newborn rats. During prenatal development, the brains of most animals, including humans, develop specifically male or female characteristics. She found that giving estradiol, a testosterone derivative, triggers a mechanism by which certain genes in the brain are "unsilenced", allowing them to initiate the process ...

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