Decision letter for "Sexually differentiated and neuroanatomically specific co‐expression of aromatase neurons and GAD67 in the male and female quail brain"

ABSTRACT Testosterone metabolism was studied by an in-vitro technique in the brain and cloacal gland of young male and female quail at different ages ranging from 7 days of incubation to 2 days after hatching. Very active metabolism, leading almost exclusively to the production of 5β-reduced compounds, was observed. 5β-Reductase activity remained high throughout the incubation period in the hypothalamus, decreased around the time of hatching in the cerebellum and decreased progressively between days 7 and 15 of incubation in the cloacal gland. These changes could be involved in the control of sexual differentiation: the high 5β-reductase in the brain possibly protects males from being behaviourally demasculinized by their endogenous testosterone while the decreasing 5β-reductase in the cloacal gland would progressively permit the masculinization of that structure. J. Endocr. (1984) 102, 77–81

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Decision letter for "Sexually differentiated and neuroanatomically specific co‐expression of aromatase neurons and GAD67 in the male and female quail brain"

Differential effects of testosterone on protein synthesis activity in male and female quail brain

A comparison of aromatase, 5α-, and 5β- reductase activities in the brain and pituitary of male and female quail(C. c. japonica)

Effects of sex steroids on aromatase mRNA expression in the male and female quail brain

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Relationships between rapid changes in local aromatase activity and estradiol concentrations in male and female quail brain

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5β-Reductase activity in the brain and cloacal gland of male and female embryos in the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

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