Alterations in thyroid function in female sprague-dawley rats following chronic treatment with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 237-244

  Sewall, C H ^a   Flagler, N ^a   Vandenheuvel, J P ^a,b   Clark, G C ^a   Tritscher, A M ^a   Maronpot, R M ^a   Lucier, G W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; CYTOCHROME P450; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; RAT; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0029038565     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1995.1104     Document Type: Article

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