PCBs exert an estrogenic effect through repression of the Wnt7a signaling pathway in the female reproductive tract

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 898-904

  Ma, Risheng ^a   Sassoon, David A ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Aroclor 1254; DES; Diethylstilbestrol; Endocrine disruptor; Female reproductive tract; PCBs; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Wnt7a

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR 1254; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT7A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; AROCLORS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; MICE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS;

EID: 33745011578     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8748     Document Type: Article

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