Acute exposure of adult male rats to dietary phytoestrogens reduces fecundity and alters epididymal steroid hormone receptor expression

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 565-573

  Glover, A ^a   Assinder, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOESTROGEN; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIET; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PHYTOESTROGENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745273869     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06709     Document Type: Article

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