17β-Hydroxy-5alpha-androst-1-en-3-one (1-testosterone) is a potent androgen with anabolic properties

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-155

  Friedel, A ^a   Geyer, H ^c   Kamber, M ^d   Laudenbach Leschowsky, U ^a   Schanzer W ^c   Thevis, M ^c   Vollmer, G ^b   Zierau, O ^b   Diel, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Swiss Federal Institute of Sport   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

1 Testosterone; Anabolic steroid; Hershberger assay; Levator ani muscle; Receptor binding

Indexed keywords

1 TESTOSTERONE; ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BOLDENONE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DRUG BINDING; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; LIVER WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPORTER GENE; SEMINAL VESICLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSACTIVATION; ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIVER; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; RATS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEMINAL VESICLES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33745184436     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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