Effects of acute and chronic exposure to the aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonist 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin on the transition to reproductive senescence in female Sprague-Dawley rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 125-130

  Franczak, Anita ^a,b,c   Nynca, Anna ^c   Valdez, Kelli E ^a,b   Mizinga, Kemmy M ^d   Petroff, Brian K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^d KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Environment; Estradiol; Ovulatory cycle; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SENESCENCE; VAGINA CYTOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CLIMACTERIC; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 30344450412     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.044396     Document Type: Article

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