Onset of spermatogenesis is accelerated by gestational administration of 1,2,3,4,6,7-hexachlorinated naphthalene in male rat offspring

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 539-544

  Omura, Minoru ^a   Masuda, Yoshito ^b   Hirata, Miyuki ^a   Tanaka, Akiyo ^a   Makita, Yuji ^a   Ogata, Rika ^a   Inoue, Naohide ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,2,3,4,6,7 Hexachlorinated naphthalene; Endocrine disruption; Gonadotropins; In utero and lactational exposure; Onset of spermatogenesis; Polychlorinated naphthalenes; Rats

Indexed keywords

1,2,3,4,6,7 HEXACHLORONAPHTHALENE; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033923166     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108539     Document Type: Article

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