Development of sex differences in the pr
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Tina Gotsiridze; Ningdong Kang; Dena Jacob; Nancy G. Forger
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Article
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2007
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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English
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## Abstract Neuron number in the principal nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNSTp) is greater in adult male mice than in females. Deletion of the proapoptotic gene, __Bax,__ increases the number of BNSTp cells in adulthood and eliminates the sex difference in cell number. Here, w