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Researchers at Kyoto Prefectural University, Medical Department have published new data on hormones

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 27th, 2008

"We report evidence for the existence of a unique nucleus in the rat hypothalamus. This nerve cell group is situated in the interstitial area between the arcuate nucleus and ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, and is primarily oriented sagittally, in a spindle shape," researchers in Kyoto, Japan report.

"This nucleus was a well defined structure in Nissl-stained sections because of its location in an otherwise cell-poor zone. This sagittalis nucleus of the hypothalamus (SGN) exhibits significant sex differences in its volume and cell numbers, as defined by Nissl staining and estrogen receptor (ER) a immunoreactivity (ir), being significantly larger in males than...

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