Sexually dimorphic gene regulation in brain as a target for endocrine disrupters: Developmental exposure of rats to 4-methylbenzylidene camphor

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 152-165

  Maerkel, Kirsten ^a   Durrer, Stefan ^a   Henseler, Manuel ^a   Schlumpf, Margret ^a   Lichtensteiger, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

4 Methylbenzylidene camphor (4 MBC); Brain regions; Coactivator (SRC 1); Development; Gene expression; Sensitivity to estrogen; Sex difference; Thyroid; Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

3 (4 METHYLBENZYLIDENE)CAMPHOR; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PREPROENKEPHALIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEROID RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; FETUS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; LACTATION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATE; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CAMPHOR; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENKEPHALINS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, SRC; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

DRYOBALANOPS; RATTUS;

EID: 33846580118     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2006.10.026     Document Type: Article

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