Mapping gene expression changes in the fetal rat testis following acute dibutyl phthalate exposure defines a complex temporal cascade of responding cell types

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 978-989

  Johnson, Kamin J ^a,b   Hensley, Janan B ^a   Kelso, Michael D ^a   Wallace, Duncan G ^a   Gaido, Kevin W ^a  

^a HAMNER INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal; Gene expression; Leydig; Leydig cells; Peritubular myoid; Phthalate; Rat; Sertoli; Sertoli cells; Testis; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTGF GENE; CXCL10 GENE; DUSP6 GENE; EDN1 GENE; EGR1 GENE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GESTATIONAL AGE; IER3 GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NR4A1 GENE; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C JUN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; STC1 GENE; TESTIS; THBS1 GENE; TNFRSF12A GENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PLASTICIZERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

MYOIDA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 36649034008     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.062950     Document Type: Article

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