Estrogen sensitivity of target genes and expression of nuclear receptor co-regulators in rat prostate after pre- and postnatal exposure to the ultraviolet filter 4-methylbenzylidene camphor

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue SUPPL1, 2007, Pages 42-50

  Durrer, Stefan ^a   Ehnes, Colin ^a   Fuetsch, Michaela ^a   Maerkel, Kirsten ^a   Schlumpf, Margret ^a   Lichtensteiger, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

4 methylbenzylidene camphor (4 mbc); Androgen receptor; Development; Estrogen receptors; Gene expression; Insulin like growth factor 1; N CoR; Prostate; Puberty; SRC 1; UV filter

Indexed keywords

3 (4' METHYLBENZYLIDENE)CAMPHOR; 3-(4'-METHYLBENZYLIDENE)CAMPHOR; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CAMPHOR; CELL RECEPTOR; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOMEDIN C; SUNSCREEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PUBERTY; RAT; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CAMPHOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SUNSCREENING AGENTS; TESTIS;

EID: 40349111516     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9134     Document Type: Article

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