Testicular dysgenesis syndrome and Leydig cell function

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-161

  Joensen, Ulla Nordström ^a   Jørgensen, Niels ^a   Meyts, Ewa Rajpert De ^a   Skakkebæk, Niels Erik ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; TESTOSTERONE;

CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYPTORCHISM; DEL CASTILLO SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERM CELL; GONADOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LEYDIG CELL; LIFESTYLE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38449100722     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00197.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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