Lack of effects of atrazine on estrogen-responsive organs and circulating hormone concentrations in sexually immature female Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Chemosphere

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 674-681

  Wilhelms, K W ^a   Cutler, S A ^a   Proudman, J A ^b   Carsia, R V ^c   Anderson, L L ^a   Scanes, C G ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Endocrine disruptor; Estrogen; Female; Quail

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; QUAIL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HORMONES; TISSUE; TOXICITY;

HERBICIDES;

ATRAZINE; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HERBICIDES; HORMONES; TISSUE; TOXICITY;

AMPHIBIAN; ATRAZINE; BIRD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; HORMONE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SEXUAL MATURITY; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEEDING; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMATURITY; LIVER; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVIDUCT; QUAIL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SILICONE PROSTHESIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; COTURNIX; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 33747806340     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.01.045     Document Type: Article

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