Dietary Phytoestrogens Accelerate the Time of Vaginal Opening in Immature CD-1 Mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 607-615

  Thigpen, Julius E ^a   Haseman, Joseph K ^a   Saunders, Hannah E ^a   Setchell, Kenneth D R ^b   Grant, Mary G ^a   Forsythe, Diane B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; DAIDZEIN; GENISTEIN; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; STANDARD; TIME; UTERUS; VAGINA; WEIGHT;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DIET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; FOOD, FORMULATED; GENISTEIN; ISOFLAVONES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHYTOESTROGENS; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SEXUAL MATURATION; VAGINA;

EID: 0345827468     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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