Changes in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ-regulated gene expression and inhibin/activin-follistatin system gene expression in rat testis after an administration of di-n-butyl phthalate

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-225

  Kobayashi, Tetsu ^a   Niimi, Shingo ^a   Kawanishi, Toru ^a   Fukuoka, Masamichi ^b   Hayakawa, Takao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SHOWA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Di n butyl phthalate; Inhibin activin follistatin system; PPAR ; RT PCR; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CYTOCHROME P450 4A; FOLLISTATIN; INHIBIN B; MESSENGER RNA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TESTIS ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INHIBINS; ION CHANNELS; LIVER; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037416713     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(02)00414-9     Document Type: Article

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