Histological changes in immune and endocrine organs of quail embryos: Exposure to estrogen and nonylphenol

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 364-371

  Razia, Sultana ^a   Maegawa, Yukari ^a   Tamotsu, Satoshi ^a   Oishi, Tadashi ^a  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryo; Endocrine organ; Estrogen; Immune organ; Japanese quail; Nonylphenol; Ovotestis

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; NONYLPHENOL;

BIRD; EMBRYO; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PHENOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURSA FABRICII; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENDOCRINE GLAND; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LYMPHOID CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; QUAIL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; TESTIS; THYMUS; THYROID CELL; THYROID FOLLICLE;

ANIMALS; BURSA OF FABRICIUS; ESTRADIOL; FEMINIZATION; MALE; PHENOLS; QUAIL; TESTIS; THYMUS GLAND; THYROID GLAND;

COTURNIX JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 33749337742     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2005.07.026     Document Type: Article

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