Steroid secretion following exposure of ovarian follicular cells to three different natural mixtures of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-66

  Gregoraszczuk, Ewa L ^a   Milczarek, Katarzyna ^a   Wójtowicz, Anna K ^a   Berg, Vidar ^b   Skaare, Janneche U ^c   Ropstad, Erik ^c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Norwegian Veterinary Institute   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell viability; Defined mixture; Ovarian follicles; PBDE; PCB; Pesticides; Steroid secretion

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; TESTOSTERONE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COCULTURE; COLORIMETRY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EXTRACTION; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMESIS; HORMONE RELEASE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STEROID ANALYSIS; STEROID RELEASE; STEROIDOGENESIS; THECA CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COD LIVER OIL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; GADIFORMES; GADUS MORHUA; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GRANULOSA CELLS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NORWAY; PROGESTERONE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWINE; THECA CELLS; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GADUS MORHUA; LOTA;

EID: 37349100524     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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