Exposure to bisphenol A during gestation and lactation causes loss of sex difference in corticotropin-releasing hormone-immunoreactive neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis of rats

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 475-485

  Funabashi, Toshiya ^a   Kawaguchi, Maiko ^a,b   Furuta, Miyako ^a   Fukushima, Atsushi ^a   Kimura, Fukuko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Bisphenol A; Corticotropin releasing hormone neurons; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRIA TERMINALIS; WEANING;

EID: 1642430918     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(03)00055-6     Document Type: Article

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