Prepubertal nutrition alters Leydig cell functional capacity and timing of puberty.

Prepubertal nutrition alters Leydig cell functional capacity and timing of puberty.

Leydig cell functional capacity reflects the numbers and differentiation status of the steroidogenic Leydig cells in the testes and becomes more or less fixed in early adulthood with the final establishment of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis after puberty. Factors influencing Leydig cel...

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Main Authors: Ravinder Anand-Ivell, Colin J Byrne, Jonas Arnecke, Sean Fair, Pat Lonergan, David A Kenny, Richard Ivell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225465

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225465

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