Changes in fetal brain aromatase activity following in utero 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin exposure in rats

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-7

  Ikeda, Masahiko ^a,c   Inukai, Naomi ^a   Mitsui, Tetsuo ^a   Sone, Hideko ^b,c   Yonemoto, Junzo ^b,c   Tohyama, Chiharu ^b,c   Tomita, Takako ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatase activity; Sexual differentiation; TCDD

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATASE; BRAIN ENZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; MASCULINITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0036027408     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1382-6689(01)00094-1     Document Type: Article

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