Prenatal androgens time neuroendocrine sexual maturation

Endocrinology

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 2457-2468

  Wood, Ruth I ^a   Ebling, Francis J P ^a,c   I’Anson, Helen ^a   Bucholtz, David C ^a   Yellon, Steven M ^b   Foster, Douglas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE CIPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FETUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PULSATILE FLOW; SEX MATURATION; SHEEP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0025804592     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-128-5-2457     Document Type: Article

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