The aromatase inhibitor letrozole increases epiphyseal growth plate height and tibial length in peripubertal male mice

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 165-172

  Eshet, R ^b,c   Maor, G ^a   Ari, T Ben ^b,c   Eliezer, M Ben ^b,c   Gat Yablonski, G ^b,c   Phillip, M ^b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; DRUG VEHICLE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROXYPROPYLCELLULOSE; LETROZOLE; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; EPIPHYSIS PLATE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH PLATE; HEIGHT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEG LENGTH; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAIL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TIBIA;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BODY WEIGHT; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE II; COLLAGEN TYPE X; GROWTH PLATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NITRILES; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; SEXUAL MATURATION; TAIL; TIBIA; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 4043127520     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1820165     Document Type: Article

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