In utero and lactational exposure to an environmentally relevant organochlorine mixture disrupts reproductive development and function in male rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 414-426

  Anas, Mohamed Kheir Idris ^a   Guillemette, Christine ^a   Ayotte, Pierre ^a,b   Pereg, Daria ^b   Giguère, Francine ^a   Bailey, Janice L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environment; Male reproductive tract; Puberty; Sperm; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ALDRIN; ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; CORN OIL; DIELDRIN; FOLLITROPIN; LINDANE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIREX; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; DEVELOPMENT; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEEDING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LACTATION; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOZOA; SPLEEN;

PHOCIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 23844447693     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.037374     Document Type: Article

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