What is it about?
This paper would never have been written if we had stayed with our conventional reliance on only male rats for experiments
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Why is it important?
It documents an action of sex steroids on a brain area not usually related with hormonal activity
Perspectives
This was the result of a postdoc trying to learn the method but we only had female rats. Her results were different from the standard ones in male animals!
Professor Gordon William Arbuthnott
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
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This page is a summary of: Oestradiol-17β Increases the Firing Rate of Antidromically Identified Neurones of the Rat Neostriatum, Neuroendocrinology, January 1983, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000123527.
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