Development of the adult-type Leydig cell population in the rat is affected by neonatal thyroid hormone levels

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 344-350

  Teerds, Katja J ^a,c   De Rooij, Dirk G ^a   De Jong, Frank H ^b   Van Haaster, Laura H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031879103     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.2.344     Document Type: Article

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