Embryonic exposure to the fungicide vinclozolin causes virilization of females and alteration of progesterone receptor expression in vivo: an experimental study in mice

BACKGROUND: Vinclozolin is a fungicide that has been reported to have anti-androgenic effects in rats. We have found that in utero exposure to natural or synthetic progesterones can induce hypospadias in mice, and that the synthetic progesterone medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) feminizes male and v...

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Autores principales: Buckley, Jill, Willingham, Emily, Agras, Koray, Baskin, Laurence S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16504050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-5-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16504050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-5-4

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