Sexual dimorphism of postnatal growth of rat adrenal glands
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Abstract
Growth of adrenals during weeks 4-9 of postnatal life in male and female Wistar rats is studied. A statistically significant delay of gland growth was observed in males starting from week 6 in comparison with females. Disproportion in body and adrenal weight increase was observed in males but not in females in the course of experiment. Sex-specific differences in adrenal weight is mainly due to growth rate delay in the bundle zone in males. Cell volume in the bundle zone of male adrenals was lower than in females, but there were no differences in the levels of mitotic division or cell counts.
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O. I. KirillovInstitute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
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Kirillov O.I. Sexual dimorphism of postnatal growth of rat adrenal glands. Problems of Endocrinology. 1998;44(5):45-46. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.14341/probl11650
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