Jonathan W VanRyzin1, Ashley E Marquardt1, Margaret M McCarthy1

  • 1Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Drug Development and University of Maryland Medicine - Institute for Neuroscience Discovery (UM-MIND), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201.

概括

微质细胞通过通过瘤坏死因子α (TNFα) 支持女性特异性天体细胞存活,在大脑女性化中发挥关键作用. 破坏这个过程会改变社会行为,显示出男性化和女性化之间的平衡.