Effects of prenatal flutamide on testicular development, androgen production and fertility in rats

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-133

  Okur, Hamit ^a   Muhtaroǧlu, Sabahattin ^a   Bozkurt, Ali ^a   Kontaş, Olgun ^a   Küçükaydin, Nursel ^a   Küçükaydin, Mustafa ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; Fertility; Flutamide

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; EMBRYO; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS DESCENT; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; FERTILITY; FLUTAMIDE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS;

EID: 33745019360     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090875     Document Type: Article

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