Exposure to bisphenol A during the fetal and suckling periods disrupts sexual differentiation of the locus coeruleus and of behavior in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 73-76

  Kubo, Kazuhiko ^a   Arai, Okio ^b   Ogata, Rika ^a   Omura, Minoru ^a   Hori, Tetsuro ^a   Aou, Shuji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avoidance behavior; Bisphenol A; Environmental endocrine disrupter; Locus coeruleus; No observed adverse effect level; Open field activity; Rat; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUCKLING;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; PHENOLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0035907167     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01760-8     Document Type: Article

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