Is fetal testis in danger?;Le testicule fœtal est-il en danger?

Medecine/Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1083-1088

  Delbès, Géraldine ^a   Levacher, Christine ^a   Duquenne, Clotilde ^a   Habert, René ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

CRYPTORCHISM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS; FETUS TESTIS; FOOD; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEWBORN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ESTROGENS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; TESTIS; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 30344486257     PISSN: 07670974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/medsci/200521121083     Document Type: Review

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