Study on developmental abnormalities in hypospadiac male rats induced by maternal exposure to di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP)

Toxicology

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 286-293

  Jiang, JunTao ^a   Ma, Long ^b   Yuan, Lin ^c   Wang, XinRu ^b   Zhang, Wei ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Di n butyl phthalate; Genitalia; Hypospadiac rat; Hypospadias; Serum testosterone

Indexed keywords

PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOSPADIAS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RAT; SPLEEN; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HYPOSPADIAS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS;

EID: 33947305454     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2007.01.018     Document Type: Article

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