Phytoestrogens alter the reproductive organ development in the mink (Mustela vison)

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 132-139

  Ryökkynen, Ari ^a   Nieminen, Petteri ^a   Mustonen, Anne Mari ^a   Pyykönen, Teija ^a   Asikainen, Juha ^a   Hänninen, Sari ^a   Mononen, Jaakko ^a   Kukkonen, Jussi V K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Sitosterol; Genistein; Mink; Reproduction; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; GENISTEIN; PHYTOESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE; SITOSTEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LACTATION; MALE; MINK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; ORGANOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATE; SAMPLING; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS; UTERUS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY MASS INDEX; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MINK; ORGAN SIZE; PHYTOESTROGENS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SITOSTEROLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 11144261665     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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