期刊
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
卷 55, 期 5, 页码 570-578出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.03.011
关键词
Testosterone; Estradiol; Organizational; Activational; Sex chromosome; X chromosome; Y chromosome; Sexual differentiation; Sex difference
资金
- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01 DC000217] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS043196, R01 NS045966] Funding Source: Medline
The 1959 publication of the paper by Phoenix et al. was a major turning point in the study of sexual differentiation of the brain. That study showed that sex differences in behavior, and by extension in the brain, were permanently sexually differentiated by testosterone, a testicular secretion, during an early critical period of development. The study placed the brain together in a class with other major sexually dimorphic tissues (external genitalia and genital tracts), and proposed an integrated hormonal theory of sexual differentiation for all of these non-gonadal tissues. Since 1959, the organizational-activational theory has been amended but survives as a central concept that explains many sex differences in phenotype, in diverse tissues and at all levels of analysis from the molecular to the behavioral. In the last two decades, however, sex differences have been found that are not explained by such gonadal hormonal effects, but rather because of the primary action of genes encoded on the sex chromosomes. To integrate the classic organizational and activational effects with the more recently discovered sex chromosome effects, we propose a unified theory of sexual differentiation that applies to all mammalian tissues. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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