Estrogen effects on fetal and neonatal testicular development

Reproduction

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 527-538

  Delbès, Géraldine ^a,b,c   Levacher, Christine ^a,b,c   Habert, René ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 OCTYLPHENOL; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; COUMESTROL; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GENISTEIN; PHTHALIC ACID; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CRYPTORCHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GAMETE; GENE INACTIVATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE INFERTILITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANDROGENS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 33750503417     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.01231     Document Type: Review

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