Concept evaluation: Androgen-stimulated immature intact male rats as an assay for antiandrogens

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 35, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 280-285

  Ashby, J ^a   Owens, W ^b   Lefevre, P A ^a  

^a JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ANDROGEN; ANTIANDROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HORMONAL REGULATION; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; TISSUE GROWTH; ANIMAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; EVALUATION; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RAT STRAIN; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FLUTAMIDE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 0036081831     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/rtph.2002.1543     Document Type: Article

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