Maternal smoking during pregnancy specifically reduces human fetal desert hedgehog gene expression during testis development

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 619-626

  Fowler, Paul A ^a   Cassie, Sarah ^a   Rhind, Stewart M ^c   Brewer, Mark J ^b   Collinson, J Martin ^a   Lea, Richard G ^d   Baker, Paul J ^e   Bhattacharya, Siladitya ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Peter J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CIGARETTE SMOKE; COTININE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEYDIG CELL; LIVER; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ERINACEIDAE; MUS;

EID: 39049116612     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2007-1860     Document Type: Article

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