A single dose of the ovotoxicant 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide is protective in rat primary ovarian follicles

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 244-252

  Borman, S M ^a   Vandepol, B J ^a   Kao, S ^b   Thompson, K E ^a   Sipes, I G ^b   Hoyer, P B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atresia; Bax; Ovotoxicity; VCD

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; INDUSTRIAL TOXIC SUBSTANCE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PROTECTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033180267     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1999.8702     Document Type: Article

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