5alpha-reductase 2 inhibition impairs brain defeminization of male rats: Reproductive aspects

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 228-235

  Ribeiro, Camilla Moreira ^a   Pereira, Oduvaldo Câmara Marques ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

5alpha reductase; Androgens; Brain sexual differentiation; Finasteride; Rat; Reproduction; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; FINASTERIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HOMOSEXUALITY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FINASTERIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERM COUNT; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE;

EID: 26444495118     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2005.08.015     Document Type: Article

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