Changes in male reproductive system and mineral metabolism induced by soy isoflavones administered to rats from prenatal life until sexual maturity

Nutrition

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 372-379

  Piotrowska, Katarzyna ^a   Baranowska Bosiacka, Irena ^a   Marchlewicz, Mariola ^a   Gutowska, Izabela ^a   Noceń, Iwona ^a   Zawiślak, Monika ^a   Chlubek, Dariusz ^a   Wiszniewska, Barbara ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DAIDZEIN; ESTRADIOL; GENISTEIN; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM; PHYTOESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BONE LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MINERAL METABOLISM; MORNING DOSAGE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENISTEIN; GENITALIA, MALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; PHYTOESTROGENS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SOYBEANS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; ZINC;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 79951555762     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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