Assessment of pubertal development in juvenile male rats after sub-acute exposure to bisphenol A and nonylphenol

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-270

  Tan, Benjamin L L ^a   Kassim, Normadiah M ^a   Mohd, Mustafa Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bisphenol A; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Environmental pollutant; Estrogenic; Nonylphenol; Pubertal assay; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; CORN OIL; NONYLPHENOL; POLYSORBATE 80;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPIDIDYMIS; HISTOLOGY; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY MASS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE INJURY;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0038121662     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(03)00172-3     Document Type: Article

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