Long-term exposure of female sheep to physiologic concentrations of estradiol: Effects on the onset and maintenance of reproductive function, pregnancy, and social development in female offspring

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 844-852

  Malcolm, Karl D ^a   Jackson, Leslie M ^a   Bergeon, Christine ^a   Lee, Theresa M ^a   Padmanabhan, Vasantha ^a,b   Foster, Douglas L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Environment; Estradiol; Neuroendocrinology; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; BREEDING LINE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG IMPLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; LACTATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MASCULINITY; MULTIGENERATIONAL STUDY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY CYCLE; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL MATURITY; SHEEP; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN ECHOVIRUS 1; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33751561438     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.053264     Document Type: Article

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