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ArticleJournal of neuroendocrinology2025

A male-dominant cell group expressing calbindin-D28K and androgen receptor in the mouse preoptic area requires postnatal testicular androgens and histone deacetylation.

Yusa Arai, Shinji Tsukahara

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Yusa AraiDivision of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan.
Shinji TsukaharaDivision of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8623-884X

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 20K07257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mouse brain is masculinized by postnatal testicular androgens, which are active after conversion to estrogens and modulate gene expression epigenetically, at least in part. The preoptic area contains a sexually dimorphic nucleus (SDN) comprising calbindin D-28K (Calb) neurons with a male-biased sex difference in cell number (Calb-SDN), although the mechanisms responsible for the sex difference are not fully understood. We have previously demonstrated that Calb neurons expressing the androgen receptor (AR) are a male-dominant cell group of the Calb-SDN in pubertal mice, while Calb neurons without AR exist in both sexes with equal cell numbers. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms by which more Calb/AR neurons emerge in the male Calb-SDN than in the female one. Immunohistochemistry for Calb and AR was performed using the brain sections from pubertal male mice subjected to sham surgery or neonatal orchidectomy, from pubertal female mice treated with vehicle, testosterone, or estradiol during the postnatal period, and from pubertal male mice whose brains were treated with trichostatin A, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, during the postnatal period. Immunostained brain sections were analyzed stereologically to determine the numbers of Calb-immunopositive and AR-immunopositive cells (Calb

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AndrogensCalbindin 1CalbindinsHistonesNeuronsPreoptic AreaReceptors, AndrogenTestisAcetylationAnimalsAnimals, NewbornFemaleHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLAndrogensCalbindin 1CalbindinsHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsHistonesReceptors, AndrogenTestosteroneandrogen receptorcalbindin‐D28Ksexually dimorphic nucleus

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