title: Prepuberal reproductive defects in neonatal estrogenized male rats.
abstract: Intact Wistar male rats injected on Day 1 with 500 micrograms of estradiol benzoate or olive oil were decapitated on Days 15 and 22 or maintained until adulthood to analyze the balanopreputial separation. Other oil or estradiol-treated rats were orchidectomized on Day 15 and decapitated on Day 22. The neonatal estrogenization produced the following reproductive changes prior to puberty: testis, adrenal, and ventral prostate atrophy; increase in the weights of seminal vesicles and epididymis; decrease in testosterone plasma levels; delayed balanopreputial separation; abolition of luteinizing hormone response to orchidectomy; transient increase in prolactin plasma levels; and blockade in seminal and prostate response to orchidectomy.
mesh_terms: D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000502:physiology*; D001284:Atrophy; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size / Q000187:drug effects; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000187:drug effects; D011388:Prolactin / Q000097:blood; D011467:Prostate / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013737:Testis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology*; D013739:Testosterone / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D013739:Testosterone; D004958:Estradiol; D011388:Prolactin; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone