Diethylstilboestrol Exposure Does Not Reduce Testosterone Production in Human Fetal Testis Xenografts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Mitchell, Rod T ^a,b   Sharpe, Richard M ^a   Anderson, Richard A ^a   McKinnell, Chris ^a   Macpherson, Sheila ^a   Smith, Lee B ^a   Wallace, W Hamish B ^b   Kelnar, Christopher J H ^b   van den Driesche, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA GENE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; SEMINAL VESICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; FETUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84876426038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061726     Document Type: Article

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