In utero protein restriction causes growth delay and alters sperm parameters in adult male rats

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Toledo, Fabíola C ^a,b   Perobelli, Juliana E ^a,b   Pedrosa, Flávia P C ^b   Anselmo Franci, Janete A ^c   Kempinas, Wilma D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VAS DEFERENS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 79959435170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-94     Document Type: Article

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