Organizational actions of postnatal estradiol in female sheep treated prenatally with testosterone: Programming of prepubertal neuroendocrine function and the onset of puberty

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2317-2324

  Jackson, Leslie M ^a,b   Timmer, Kathleen M ^a   Foster, Douglas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; IMPLANT; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CYCLE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PULSE RATE; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS CYCLE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PULSATILE FLOW; SECRETION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROENDOCRINE CELLS; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PULSATILE FLOW; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 66449092943     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-1307     Document Type: Article

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