Enhanced thecal androgen production is prenatally programmed in an ovine model of polycystic ovary syndrome

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 450-461

  Hogg, Kirsten ^a   Young, Julia M ^a   Oliver, Elizabeth M ^a   Souza, Carlos J ^a   McNeilly, Alan S ^a   Duncan, W Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATION PERIOD; HYPOTHALAMUS PITUITARY OVARY AXIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; THECA CELL;

ANDROGENS; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; OVARY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, LH; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; THECA CELLS; VIRILISM;

EID: 84455188274     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1607     Document Type: Article

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