Prenatal Androgen Exposure, Preoptic Area and Reproductive Functions in the Female Rat
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Prenatal androgen exposure, preoptic area and reproductive functions in the female rat.
Pregnant rats were injected with 4 mg of testosterone propionate (TP) from days 15 to 22 of pregnancy or a single dose of 4 mg TP on day 17 or 21 of pregnancy. Female offspring treated with TP or the vehicle prenatally were sacrificed at 90 days of age. The volume of the cluster of intensely stained neurons in the medial preoptic area, the "sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area" (SDN-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Juntendo Medical Journal
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0022-6769,2188-2134
DOI: 10.14789/pjmj.33.406