Sexual dimorphism in the response of the large-cell neurons of the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nuclei to water-salt loading and water deprivation
Akmaev, I.G.; Gorbatiuk, O.S.
Arkhiv Patologii 53(1): 13-15
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1955 PMID: 1859273 Document Number: 386419
The responses of large-cell populations of the hypothalamic paraventricular nuclei (PVN) to salt loading and water deprivation in adult male and female rats were studied using morphometric methods at the level of light microscopy. Sexual dimorphism, especially pronounced during functional stress, has been observed in the responses of all large-cell PVN populations. The males proved to be more sensitive.