Pathways of endocrine disruption during male sexual differentiation and masculinisation

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-110

  Sharpe, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti M llerian hormone; Cryptorchidism; Dihydrotestosterone; Foetal germ cells; Hypospadias; Insulin like factor 3; Leydig cells; Low sperm counts; Oestradiol; Phthalates; Seminiferous cord formation; Sertoli cells; Testicular dysgenesis; Testis cancer; Testis formation; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PHTHALIC ACID; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SOMATOMEDIN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TRIBUTYLTIN;

CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; MASCULINITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RAT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; GLYCOPROTEINS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33644651006     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2005.09.005     Document Type: Review

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