Assessment of circulating hormones in regulatory toxicity studies II. Male reproductive hormones

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1063-1078

  Chapin, Robert E ^a   Creasy, Dianne M ^b  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b Huntingdon Life Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

dog; FSH; histopathology; hormone measurement; LH; primate; prolactin; rat; testes; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FINASTERIDE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACCESSORY SEX ORGAN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DOG; EPIDIDYMIS; GIANT CELL; HAPLORHINI; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPERANDROGENISM; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE; REVIEW; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DOGS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PROLACTIN; RATS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TOXICITY TESTS; XENOBIOTICS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PRIMATES; RATTUS;

EID: 84867083338     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: 15331601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192623312443321     Document Type: Review

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