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Science 20 August 1971:
Vol. 173. no. 3998, pp. 731 - 733
DOI: 10.1126/science.173.3998.731
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Sexual Dimorphism in the Preoptic Area of the Rat
Geoffrey Raisman 1 and
Pauline M. Field 1
1 Department of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QX, England
A quantitative evaluation of the relative distribution of synapses on dendritic shafts and spines serves to differentiate the neuropil of the preoptic area from that of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus; it also shows that the neuropil of the preoptic area is sexually dimorphic.
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