Iprodione delays male rat pubertal development, reduces serum testosterone levels, and decreases ex vivo testicular testosterone production

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 74-81

  Blystone, Chad R ^a,b   Lambright, Christy S ^b   Furr, Johnathan ^b   Wilson, Vickie S ^b   Gray Jr , L Earl ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Iprodione; Puberty; Steroidogenesis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOCHROME P450 17; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; IPRODIONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIDIDYMIS; EX VIVO STUDY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AMINOIMIDAZOLE CARBOXAMIDE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; EPIDIDYMIS; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HUMANS; HYDANTOINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS;

EID: 35349006423     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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