Low phytoestrogen levels in feed increase fetal serum estradiol resulting in the "fetal estrogenization syndrome" and obesity in CD-1 mice

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-328

  Ruhlen, Rachel L ^a   Howdeshell, Kembra L ^a,d   Mao, Jiude ^a   Taylor, Julia A ^a   Bronson, Franklin H ^b   Newbold, Retha R ^c   Welshons, Wade V ^a   vom Saal, Frederick S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Casein; Estradiol; Fat; Glucose; Leptin; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Puberty; Reproductive organs; Soy; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

CASEIN; ESTRADIOL; GLUCOSE; LEPTIN; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETAL ESTROGENIZATION SYNDROME; FETUS; FOOD COMPOSITION; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; LACTATION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PUBERTY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SOYBEAN; TESTIS SIZE; WEANING;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; OBESITY; PHYTOESTROGENS; PREGNANCY;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 40849087944     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10448     Document Type: Article

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