Pharmacokinetics and Degree of Aromatization Rather Than Total Dose of Different Preparations Determine the Effects of Testosterone: A Nonhuman Primate Study in Macaca fascicularis

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 765-774

  Weinbauer, Gerhard F ^a,b   Partsch, Carl Joachim ^a,c   Zitzmann, Michael ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^a   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

^b Department of Veterinary Services and Colony Management   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical chemistry; Male contraception; Primates; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; ESTRADIOL; HEMOGLOBIN; LIPID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE 4 BUTYLCYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLATE; TESTOSTERONE DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MALE CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 4 N BUTYLCYCLOHEXYLCARBOXYLIC ACID; TESTOSTERONE 4-N-BUTYLCYCLOHEXYLCARBOXYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HALF LIFE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HYPOGONADISM; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID METABOLISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE CONGENERS;

EID: 0642373679     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2003.tb02739.x     Document Type: Article

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