Mammary gland development as a sensitive end point after acute prenatal exposure to an atrazine metabolite mixture in female long-evans rats

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 541-547

  Enoch, Rolondo R ^a,d   Stanko, Jason P ^b   Greiner, Sara N ^b,e   Youngblood, Geri L ^b,f   Rayner, Jennifer L ^c   Fenton, Suzanne E ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Body weight; Development; Mammary gland; Metabolites; Mixture; Prenatal exposure; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HISTOLOGY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PUBERTY; RAT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34247157381     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9612     Document Type: Article

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