Morphological and morphometric analysis of the adrenal cortex of androgenized female rats

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-48

  Da Silva, Benedito Borges ^a,e   Lopes Costa, Pedro Vitor ^a   Rosal, Marta Alves ^a   Pires, Cleicilene Gomes ^a   Dos Santos, Lina Gomes ^a   Gontijo, José Antônio ^b   Alencar, Airlane Pereira ^c   De Jesus Simões, Manuel ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e Bairro Jockey Club   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adrenal cortex; Androgenized rat; Persistent estrus; Polycystic ovaries

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; ZONA GLOMERULOSA;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 34347355443     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098956     Document Type: Article

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