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DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 69, Issue 7, Pages 462-475Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20721
Keywords
sex difference; estrogen; RPL17; RPL37; brain development
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- NIMH NIH HHS [K02 MH065907-05, R01-MH55488, K02-MH065907, R01 MH055488-13, R01 MH055488, K02 MH065907] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH055488, K02MH065907] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Mechanisms regulating masculinization of the zebra finch song system are unclear; both estradiol and sex-specific genes may be important. This study was designed to investigate relationships between estrogen and ribosomal proteins (RPL17 and RPL37; sex-linked genes) that exhibit greater expression in song control nuclei in juvenile males than females. Four studies on zebra finches were conducted using bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) injections on posthatching days 6-10 with immunohistochemistry for the ribosomal proteins and the neuronal marker HuC/D at day 25. Volumes of brain regions were also assessed in Nissl-stained tissue. Most BrdU+ cells expressed RPL17 and RPL37. The density and percentage or cells co-expressing BrdU and HuC/D was greatest in Area X. The density of BrdU+ cells in Area X (or its equivalent) and the percentage of these cells that were neurons were greater in males than females. In RA and HVC, total BrdU+ cells were increased in males. A variety of effects of estradiol were also detected, including inducing an Area X in females with a masculine total number of BrdU+ cells, and increasing the volume and percentage of new neurons in the HVC of females. The same manipulation in males decreased the density of BrdU+ cells in Area X, total number of BrdU+ cells in RA, and density of new neurons in HVC and RA. These data are consistent with the idea that RPL17, RPL37, and estradiol might all influence sexual differentiation, perhaps with the hormone and proteins interacting, such that an appropriate balance is required for normal development. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals. Inc. Develop Neurobiol 69: 462-475. 2009
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