Comparative effects of neonatal exposure of male rats to potent and weak (environmental) estrogens on spermatogenesis at puberty and the relationship, to adult testis size and fertility: Evidence for stimulatory effects of low estrogen levels

Endocrinology

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3898-3907

  Atanassova, N ^a,b   McKinnell, C ^a   Turner, K J ^a   Walker, M ^a   Fisher, J S ^a   Morley, M ^a   Millar, M R ^a   Groome, N P ^c   Sharpe, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; GENISTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS WEIGHT;

EID: 0033752233     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.141.10.7723     Document Type: Article

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