Effects of polychlorinated biphenyls, Kanechlor-500, on serum thyroid hormone levels in rats and mice

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 235-241

  Kato, Yoshihisa ^a   Haraguchi, Koichi ^b   Yamazaki, Tomoaki ^a   Ito, Yuriko ^a   Miyajima, Shoji ^a   Nemoto, Kiyomitsu ^a   Koga, Nobuyuki ^c   Kimura, Ryohei ^a   Degawa, Masakuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY   (Japan)

^c NAKAMURA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ddy mice; Kanechlor 500; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Thyroid hormones; UDP glucuronosyltransferases; Wistar rats

Indexed keywords

BENZYLOXYRESORUFIN; CYTOCHROME P450; ETHOXYRESORUFIN; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; KANECHLOR 500; LIOTHYRONINE; MESYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PENTOXYRESORUFIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RESORUFIN DERIVATIVE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEALKYLATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GLUCURONIDATION; HORMONE RELEASE; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSOMES, LIVER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0242499926     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfg025     Document Type: Article

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