Male reproductive toxicity of four bisphenol antioxidants in mice and rats and their estrogenic effect

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 225-241

  Takahashi, Osamu ^a   Oishi, Shinshi ^a  

^a Public Health Centre   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Estrogen; Prostate gland; Testis; Uterus

Indexed keywords

2,2' METHYLENEBIS(6 TERT BUTYL 4 ETHYLPHENOL); 2,2' METHYLENEBIS(6 TERT BUTYL 4 METHYLPHENOL); 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; 4,4' TETRAMETHYLENEBIS(6 TERT BUTYL META CRESOL); 4,4' THIOBIS(3 METHYL 6 TERT BUTYLPHENOL); ANTIOXIDANT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY SEX ORGAN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EPIDIDYMIS; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IC 50; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARIECTOMY; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERUS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE; DIET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REPRODUCTION; SPERM COUNT; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645415698     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-005-0033-5     Document Type: Article

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