Enhancement of Sexual Behavior in Female Rats by Neonatal Transplantation of Brain Tissue from Males
- 24 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 217 (4566), 1276-1278
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7112132
Abstract
Transplantation of preoptic tissue from male rat neonates into the preoptic area of female littermates increased masculine and feminine sexual behavior in the recipients during adulthood. This suggests that functional connections develop between the transplanted neural tissue and the host brain. A new intraparenchymal brain transplantation technique was used to achieve these results.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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