期刊
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
卷 143, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105197
关键词
Songbirds; Song control system; Singing behavior; Song analysis; Sex difference; Testosterone; Estradiol; Neurogenesis
资金
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant [RO1NS104008]
- Smith, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland in College Park
Adult male and female canaries treated with testosterone still show sex differences in singing behavior and brain structure, suggesting that the lower brain aromatase activity in females cannot explain these differences. The differences may be caused by early steroid action or sex-specific gene regulation in the brain.
Adult treatments with testosterone (T) do not activate singing behavior nor promote growth of song control nuclei to the same extent in male and female canaries (Serinus canaria). Because T acts in part via aromatization into an estrogen and brain aromatase activity is lower in females than in males in many vertebrates, we hypothesized that this enzymatic difference might explain the sex differences seen even after exposure to the same amount of T. Three groups of castrated males and 3 groups of photoregressed females (i.e., with quiescent ovaries following exposure to short days) received either 2 empty 10 mm silastic implants, one empty implant and one implant filled with T or one implant filled with T plus one with estradiol (E2). Songs were recorded for 3 h each week for 6 weeks before brains were collected and song control nuclei volumes were measured in Nissl-stained sections. Multiple measures of song were still different in males and females following treatment with T. Coadministration of E2 did not improve these measures and even tended to inhibit some measures such as song rate and song duration. The volume of forebrain song control nuclei (HVC, RA, Area X) and the rate of neurogenesis in HVC was increased by the two steroid treatments, but remained significantly smaller in females than in males irrespective of the endocrine condition. These sex differences are thus not caused by a lower aromatization of the steroid; sex differences in canaries are probably organized either by early steroid action or by sex-specific gene regulation directly in the brain.
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