Progesterone Receptors in the Developing Genital Tubercle: Implications for the Endocrine Disruptor Hypothesis as the Etiology of Hypospadias

Journal of Urology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 722-727

  Agras, Koray ^a   Shiroyanagi, Yoshiyuki ^a   Baskin, Laurence S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

embryonic and fetal development; estrogens; hypospadias; progesterone; receptors; urethra

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOSPADIAS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYME; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URETHRA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENITALIA, MALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; MICE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

EID: 34447102489     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.03.110     Document Type: Article

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