Seminiferous cord formation and germ-cell programming: Epigenetic transgenerational actions of endocrine disruptors

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1061, Issue , 2005, Pages 18-32

  Skinner, Michael K ^a   Anway, Matthew D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruptors; Epigenetic; Male fertility; Methoxychllor; Review; Sertoli; Sex determination; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Transgenerational; Vinclozolin

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FUNGICIDE; METHOXYCHLOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PESTICIDE; VINCLOZOLIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32244433720     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1336.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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