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Prenatal uterine environment and sexual differentiation of rats
- Publication date
- 24 November 1993
- Publisher
- prenatal factors relevant to hormonal environment on the sexual differentiation of
behavior, morphology and central nervous system in rats. The effects of such
factors as prenatal sex composition of the litter and position in utero on the sexual
differentiation of normally developed (i.e. untreated) male and female rats was
examined. In addition, the effects of experimentally induced changes in the
perinatal hormonal milieu on the central nervous system and behavior of male rats
were assessed.
This general introduction provides an overview of the effects of hormones on
reproductive morphology and behavior, and function and morphology of the central
nervous system of mammals, with emphasis on rats. Current questions and
hypotheses that led to the experiments presented in this thesis will be outlined.