Neonatal polychlorinated biphenyl treatment increases adult testis size and sperm production in the rat

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 112-117

  Cooke, Paul S ^a   Zhao, Yi Dong ^a,b   Hansen, Larry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR 1242; AROCLOR 1254; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030030053     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1996.0013     Document Type: Article

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