TABLE 2.
Sex Differences in the Expression of ERα, ERβ, and Kiss1 mRNA in the Postnatal Rat Hypothalamus
| Preoptic area |
Mediobasal hypothalamus |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene | Age (PND) | AVPV | MPOA | rARC | cARC | rVMNvl | cVMNvl | |||
| ERα | 0 | F >M | F = M | F = M | F = M | F = M | F = M | |||
| 2 | F >M | F >M | F = M | F>M | F>M | F>M | ||||
| 4 | F>M | F>M | F = M | F>M | F>M | F>M | ||||
| 7 | F = M | F>M | F = M | F>M | F>M | F>M | ||||
| 19 | F = M | F>M | F = M | F = M | F>M | F>M | ||||
| ERβ | 0 | F<M | F = M | ND | ND | F>M | F>M | |||
| 2 | F = M | F = M | ND | ND | F>M | F>M | ||||
| 4 | F = M | F = M | ND | ND | F>M | F>M | ||||
| 7 | F = M | F = M | F = M | F = M | F = M** | F>M | ||||
| 19 | F = M* | F>M | F = M | F = M | F>M | F = M | ||||
| rRP3V | cRP3V | ARC | VMN | |||||||
| Kiss1 | 0 | ND | ND | F = M | ND | |||||
| 2 | ND | ND | F>M | ND | ||||||
| 7 | ND | ND | F>M | NQ | ||||||
| 11 | ND | F = M | NA | NA | ||||||
| 19 | Female only | F>M | F = M | NQ | ||||||
ND, not detectable; NQ, not quantified (very weak signal); NA, not available. For other abbreviations, see list.
*
P = 0.09.
**
P = 0.06.