Cytotoxic effects and aromatase inhibition by xenobiotic endocrine disrupters alone and in combination

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-140

  Benachour, Nora ^a   Moslemi, Safa ^a,b   Sipahutar, Herbert ^a,c   Seralini, Gilles Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MEDAN   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Bisphenol A; Combined effects; Cytochrome P450 reductase; Diethylstilbestrol; Endocrine disrupters; Equine testis; Human 293 embryonic cells; Nonylphenol; PCB; Pesticides; Steroidogenesis; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 1,1,1 TRICHLORO 2 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) 2 (4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; AROCLOR 1254; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ATRAZINE; BIS(TRIBUTYLTIN) OXIDE; CHLORDECONE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; NONYLPHENOL; PLACENTA ENZYME; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; VINCLOZOLIN; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ALLOSTERISM; ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG INHIBITION; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MICROSOME;

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; CATALYSIS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHLORDECONE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSOMES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHENOLS; PREGNANCY; TESTIS; TRANSFECTION; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS; XENOBIOTICS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34547136446     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2007.03.033     Document Type: Article

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