The anabolic steroid methandienone targets the hypothalamic-pituitary- testicular axis and myostatin signaling in a rat training model

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-119

  Mosler, Stephanie ^a   Pankratz, Carlos ^a   Seyfried, Alexis ^a   Piechotta, Marion ^b   Diel, Patrick ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anabolic steroid; Doping; Follistatin; Methandienone; Myostatin

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FOLLISTATIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; METANDIENONE; MYOD PROTEIN; MYOSTATIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE WEIGHT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; TREADMILL;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; METHANDROSTENOLONE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSTATIN; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS;

EID: 84856967443     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-011-0740-z     Document Type: Article

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