Prenatal exposure of female rhesus monkeys to testosterone propionate increases serum luteinizing hormone levels in adulthood

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 155-163

  Dumesic, Daniel A ^a,b   Abbott, David H ^a,c   Eisner, Joel R ^c   Goy, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c St Luke's Sinai Samaritan Med C   (United States)

Author keywords

FSH; LH; Prenatal androgenization; rhesus monkey; T

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; RHESUS MONKEY; VIRILIZATION;

EID: 0031028152     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81873-0     Document Type: Article

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