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| NANCY
G. FORGER |
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research is focused on how hormones create
sex differences in the nervous system. During
mammalian development an initially bi-potential
embryo undergoes differentiation to become
male or female. This process includes sexual
differentiation of the central nervous system,
and is driven primarily by steroid hormones
produced by the developing gonads. One of
the ways that hormones sculpt the developing
nervous system is by controlling neuronal
cell death. We are studying the cellular and
molecular mechanisms whereby hormones control
developmental cell death in the brain and
spinal cord. We are also examining sexual
differentiation of the nervous system in unusual
animals such as naked mole-rats and spotted
hyenas. |
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