Imprinting by neonatal sex steroids on the structure and function of the mature mouse prostate

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 200-208

  Singh, Jaskirat ^a   Handelsman, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; DNA; DRUG SYNERGISM; EPITHELIUM; ESTROGENS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0033049010     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.1.200     Document Type: Article

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