Images Revealing Male-Female Brain Cell Differences (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Images Revealing Male-Female Brain Cell Differences

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Pavel Osten's CSHL team used qBrain mapping technology to discover that female mouse brains, despite their smaller size than male brains on average, have more inhibitory neurons (7 types and subtypes) in most subcortical regions.

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Osten Lab, CSHL

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