Effects of methyltestosterone on reproduction in the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Environmental Research

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 327-334

  Selzsam, Britta ^a   Grote, Konstanze ^b   Gericke, Christine ^b   Niemann, Lars ^a   Wittfoht, Werner ^b   Chahoud, Ibrahim ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Methyltestosterone; Quail; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

METHYLTESTOSTERONE;

POLLUTION EFFECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX; DIETARY INTAKE; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HATCHING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPERMATID;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; COTURNIX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; INFERTILITY; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; OVULATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; MAMMALIA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 27944458825     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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