Prepubertal mouse testis growth and maturation and androgen production are acutely sensitive to di-n-butyl phthalate

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3460-3475

  Moody, Sarah ^a   Goh, Hoey ^a   Bielanowicz, Amanda ^b   Rippon, Paul ^c   Loveland, Kate L ^a   Itman, Catherine ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; ANDROGEN; CORN OIL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN A; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOGENITAL DISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPOSURE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATURATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INHIBINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLASTICIZERS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SERTOLI CELLS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84883290750     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-2227     Document Type: Article

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