Strain differences in vaginal responses to the xenoestrogen bisphenol A

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 243-247

  Long, Xinghua ^a   Steinmetz, Rosemary ^a   Ben Jonathan, Nira ^b   Caperell Grant, Andrea ^a   Young, Peter C M ^a   Nephew, Kenneth P ^a   Bigsby, Robert M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisphenol A; c fos; Cell proliferation; Dose response; Rat; Vagina; Xenoestrogen

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; EPOXY RESIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PLASTIC; PROLACTIN; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG METABOLISM; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGINA EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALIA; TRITIUM;

EID: 0034075367     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.00108243     Document Type: Article

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