Prenatal testosterone exposure leads to hypertension that is gonadal hormone-dependent in adult rat male and female offspring

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Chinnathambi, Vijayakumar ^a   Balakrishnan, Meena ^a   Yallampalli, Chandrasekhar ^a   Sathishkumar, Kunju ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonadectomy; Hypertension; Prenatal testosterone; Sex steroids; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL SIDE CHAIN CLEAVAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CASTRATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CASTRATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERTENSION; MALE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SEX FACTORS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84863996281     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.097550     Document Type: Article

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