Testicular dysgenesis syndrome: Foetal origin of adult reproductive problems

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 459-465

  Wohlfahrt Veje, Christine ^a   Main, Katharina M ^a   Skakkebæk, Niels Erik ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PESTICIDE; PHTHALIC ACID; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CRYPTORCHISM; DEL CASTILLO SYNDROME; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY; LIFESTYLE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS CANCER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; SYNDROME; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS;

EID: 69949159612     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03545.x     Document Type: Review

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