Could neonatal testosterone replacement prevent alterations induced by prenatal stress in male rats?

Life Sciences

Volumn 78, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2767-2771

  Pereira, Oduvaldo Câmara Marques ^a   Bernardi, Maria Martha ^b   Gerardin, Daniela Cristina Ceccatto ^a,b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain sexual differentiation; Male rat; Prenatal stress; Sexual behavior; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SEXUAL MATURATION; STRESS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646078320     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2005.10.035     Document Type: Article

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