Effects of prenatal testosterone propionate on the sexual development of male and female rats: A dose-response study

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 71-86

  Wolf, Cynthia J ^a,b   Hotchkiss, Andrew ^b   Ostby, Joseph S ^a   LeBlanc, Gerald A ^b   Gray Jr , L Earl ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenesis of the lower vagina; Androgens; Anogenital distance; Masculinization; Prenatal exposure; Sexual differentiation; Sprague Dawley rats; Testosterone propionate

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CORN OIL; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ADULTHOOD; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BREAST AREOLA; BULBOURETHRAL GLAND; CHILDBIRTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MASCULINITY; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PROSTATE; PUBERTY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINA APLASIA; VIRILIZATION; WEANING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NIPPLES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE; TOXICITY TESTS; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036149750     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/65.1.71     Document Type: Article

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