Mouse Leydig Cells with Different Androgen Production Potential Are Resistant to Estrogenic Stimuli but Responsive to Bisphenol A Which Attenuates Testosterone Metabolism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Savchuk, Iuliia ^a   Söder, Olle ^a   Svechnikov, Konstantin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

3BHSDI GENE; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP17A1 GENE; CYP19 GENE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LEYDIG CELL; LHR GENE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STAR GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; UPREGULATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEYDIG CELLS; LIGANDS; MALE; MICE; PHENOLS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84881586978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071722     Document Type: Article

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