Fetal programming: Prenatal androgen disrupts positive feedback actions of estradiol but does not affect timing of puberty in female sheep

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 924-933

  Sharma, Tejinder Pal ^a   Herkimer, Carol ^a   West, Christine ^a   Ye, Wen ^a   Birch, Rachel ^a   Robinson, Jane E ^a   Foster, Douglas L ^a   Padmanabhan, Vasantha ^a  

^a Reproductive Sciences Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Early development; Follicle stimulating hormone; Luteinizing hormone; Neuroendocrinology; Ovulatory cycle

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFERTILITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PUBERTY; SHEEP; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0036198971     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod66.4.924     Document Type: Article

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