Inter-relationship between testicular dysgenesis and leydig cell function in the masculinization programming window in the rat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  van den Driesche, Sander ^a   Kolovos, Petros ^a   Platts, Sophie ^a   Drake, Amanda J ^b   Sharpe, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; DEXAMETHASONE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SOMATIC CELL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS DYSGENESIS; VIRILIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FETUS; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS; TESTIS DISEASE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FETUS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84855668881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030111     Document Type: Article

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