Environmental antiandrogens: Low doses of the fungicide vinclozolin alter sexual differentiation of the male rat

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 48-64

  Ostby, Joseph ^a   Monosson, Emily ^b   Gray, L Earl ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

abnormal sexual differentiation; dose response; hypospadias; risk assessment; vinclozolin

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIANDROGEN; FUNGICIDE; TESTOSTERONE; VINCLOZOLIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FETUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; NIPPLES; OXAZOLES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0343962125     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/074823379901500106     Document Type: Article

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