The mammary tumor response in triazine-treated female rats: A threshold-mediated interaction with strain and species-specific reproductive senescence

Steroids

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 672-678

  Eldridge, J Charles ^a   Wetzel, Lawrence T ^b   Stevens, James T ^b   Simpkins, James W ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Syngenta Crop Protection Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Estrous cycle; Luteinizing hormone (LH); Mammary tumors; Simazine

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE; SIMAZINE; TRIAZINE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RELEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPECIES; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VAGINA CYTOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIAZINES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032831037     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-128X(99)00051-3     Document Type: Article

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