Evidence that atrazine and diaminochlorotriazine inhibit the estrogen/progesterone induced surge of luteinizing hormone in female Sprague-Dawley rats without changing estrogen receptor action

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 278-286

  McMullin, Tami S ^a   Andersen, Melvin E ^a,b   Nagahara, Alan ^a   Lund, Trent D ^a   Pak, Toni ^a   Handa, Robert J ^a   Hanneman, William H ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b CIIT CENTERS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Brain; Chlorotriazines; DACT; Estrogen receptor; Hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; ATRAZINE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE INHIBITION; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ATRAZINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY GLAND; PREOPTIC AREA; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIAZINES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2942737345     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfh127     Document Type: Article

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