Reproductive functions and hypothalamic catecholamines in response to the soil fumigant metam sodium: Adaptations to extended exposures

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 368-376

  Goldman, Jerome M ^a   Cooper, Ralph L ^a   Murr, Ashley S ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Estrous cyclicity; Hypothalamus; Luteinizing hormone; Metam sodium

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; METHAM SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOIL TREATMENT;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OOCYTES; PESTICIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; THIOCARBAMATES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34249341747     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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