Vol. 28 (5) 2007 Neuro endocrinology letters

Hormonal protection of gender-related peculiarities of testosterone metabolism in the brain of prenatally stressed rats.

OBJECTIVES: Prenatal stress results in demasculinization and feminization of sexual behavior in adult male rats. Earlier the preventive effect of testosterone replacement of an androgen deficiency in male fetuses during exposure to stress has been demonstrated. Nevertheless the neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying hormonal protection of.....