The endocrine disruptor atrazine accounts for a dimorphic somatostatinergic neuronal expression pattern in mice

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 257-264

  Giusi, G ^a   Facciolo, R M ^a   Canonaco, M ^a   Alleva, E ^b   Belloni, V ^c   Dessi' Fulgheri, F ^c   Santucci, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Dimorphism; Herbicide; Mice; Somatostatinergic receptor subtypes

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOSTATIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; ATRAZINE; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HERBICIDES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICE; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, SOMATOSTATIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; SILVER STAINING; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 29544442417     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfj012     Document Type: Article

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