The development of male reproductive organ abnormalities after neonatal exposure to tamoxifen is genetically determined

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 626-634

  Nakai, Masaaki ^a,b   Uchida, Kazuyuki ^a   Teuscher, Cory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Epididymitis; Mice strains; Neonate; Testicular infarction; Vesicular hyperplasia

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VAS DEFERENS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; ORGAN SIZE; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAMOXIFEN; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0032851372     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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