Prepubertal administration of estradiol valerate disrupts cyclicity and leads to cystic ovarian morphology during adult life in the rat: Role of sympathetic innervation

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4289-4297

  Rosa E Silva, Alzira ^a   Guimaraes, Marco Aurelio ^a   Padmanabhan, Vasantha ^b   Lara, Hernán E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORN OIL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NORADRENALIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULTHOOD; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; CYCLIZATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE ACTION; JUVENILE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYST; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; REPRODUCTION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; DENERVATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); ESTRUS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OVARIAN CYSTS; OVARY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0141785495     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0146     Document Type: Article

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