Anogenital distance plasticity in adulthood: Implications for its use as a biomarker of fetal androgen action

Endocrinology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-31

  Mitchell, Rod T ^a   Mungall, Will ^a   McKinnell, Chris ^a   Sharpe, Richard M ^a   Cruickshanks, Lyndsey ^a   Milne, Laura ^a   Smith, Lee B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE; ANTIANDROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOGENITAL DISTANCE; ANOGENITAL INDEX; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PENIS; PERINEUM; PLASTICITY; PROSTATE; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINAL VESICLE WEIGHT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ORCHIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84919740247     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1534     Document Type: Article

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