Prenatal androgen treatment alters body composition and glucose homeostasis in male rats

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-300

  Lazic, Milos ^a   Aird, Fraser ^a   Levine, Jon E ^a   Dunaif, Andrea ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPSIN; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 1; LEPTIN; LIPID; TESTOSTERONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EPIDIDYMIS FAT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPERITONEAL FAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; COMPLEMENT FACTOR D; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE PROTEINS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEPTIN; LIPIDS; LIVER; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; TESTOSTERONE; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 79951805636     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-10-0263     Document Type: Article

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