Chronic ethanol perturbs testicular folate metabolism and dietary folate deficiency reduces sex hormone levels in the yucatan micropig

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 455-465

  Wallock Montelius, Lynn M ^a   Villanueva, Jesus A ^b   Chapin, Robert E ^c   Conley, A J ^d   Nguyen, Hung P ^a   Ames, Bruce N ^a,e   Halsted, Charles H ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Male reproductive tract; Mechanisms of hormone action; Spermatogenesis; Steroid hormones; Testis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; FOLIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID 17,20 LYASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FOLATE METABOLISM; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SWINE; TESTIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; EPIDIDYMIS; ETHANOL; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SPERM COUNT; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; TESTIS;

SUIDAE;

EID: 33847220045     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.053959     Document Type: Article

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