期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 38, 期 37, 页码 8044-8059出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1176-18.2018
关键词
behavior; development; hormone; mast cells; microglia; sex differences
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01 MH052716, F31NS093947, F32NS076327, R21MH105826]
- Ohio State University
- Translational Plant Sciences Targeted Investment in Excellence (TIE)
Many sex differences in brain and behavior are programmed during development by gonadal hormones, but the cellular mechanisms are incompletely understood. We found that immune-system-derived mast cells are a primary target for the masculinizing hormone estradiol and that mast cells are in turn primary mediators of brain sexual differentiation. Newborn male rats had greater numbers and more activated mast cells in the preoptic area (POA), a brain region essential for male copulatory behavior, than female littermates during the critical period for sexual differentiation. Inhibiting mast cells with a stabilizing agent blunted the masculinization of both POA neuronal and microglial morphology and adult sex behavior, whereas activating mast cells in females, even though fewer in number, induced masculinization. Treatment of newborn females with a masculinizing dose of estradiol increased mast cell number and induced mast cells to release histamine, which then stimulated microglia to release prostaglandins and thereby induced male-typical synaptic patterning. These findings identify a novel non-neuronal origin of brain sex differences and resulting motivated behaviors.
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