Androgenic endocrine disruptors in wastewater treatment plant effluents in India: Their influence on reproductive processes and systemic toxicity in male rats

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-73

  Kumar, Vikas ^a   Chakraborty, Ajanta ^a   Viswanath, Gunda ^a   Roy, Partha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Androgens; Steroidogenic enzymes; Testes

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANDROGEN; AROMATIC COMPOUND; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME P450C17; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; NONYLPHENOL; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IN VITRO STUDY; INDIA; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TESTIS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 36849087455     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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