Adrenal androgen concentrations increase during infancy in male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 301, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Conley, A J ^a   Plant, T M ^b   Abbott, D H ^c   Moeller, B C ^a   Stanley, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal cortex; Adrenarche; Castrate; Cortisol; Dehydroepiandrosterone; Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate; Human; Infant; Longitudinal sampling; Neonate; Nonhuman primate; Prepubertal; Zona reticularis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASTRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; INFANCY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AGE FACTORS; ANDROGENS; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; TESTOSTERONE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 82355163196     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00200.2011     Document Type: Article

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