Abnormalities in functional development of the sertoli cells in rats treated neonatally with diethylstilbestrol: A possible role for estrogens in sertoli cell development

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1084-1094

  Sharpe, R M ^a   Atanassova, N ^b   McKinnell, C ^a   Parte, P ^a   Turner, K J ^a   Fisher, J S ^a   Kerr, J B ^c   Groome, N P ^d   Macpherson, S ^a   Millar, M R ^a   Saunders, P T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences   (Bulgaria)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; PROSAPOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGENS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; MALE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 0031793912     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.5.1084     Document Type: Article

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