The aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway and sexual differentiation of neuroendocrine functions

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Petersen, Sandra L ^a   Krishnan, Sudha ^a   Hudgens, Edward D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; 3 INDOLEMETHANOL; 3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE DERIVATIVE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; DIOXIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FLAVONE; FLAVONOID; INDOLO[3,2 B]CARBAZOLE; LIGAND; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RESVERATROL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARCINOGENICITY; CARDIOTOXICITY; DRUG INHIBITION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; POLLUTANT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUBERTY DISORDERS; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; LIGANDS; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 33646818981     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-1157     Document Type: Review

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