Diverse developmental toxicity of di-n-butyl phthalate in both sexes of rat offspring after maternal exposure during the period from late gestation through lactation

Toxicology

Volumn 203, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 221-238

  Lee, Kyoung Youl ^a   Shibutani, Makoto ^a,b   Takagi, Hironori ^a,b   Kato, Natsumi ^a   Takigami, Shu ^a   Uneyama, Chikako ^a   Hirose, Masao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AGD; anogenital distance; DBP; DEHP; di(2 ethylhexyl) phthalate; di n butyl phthalate; FA; flutamide; follicle stimulating hormone; FSH; GD; gestational day; HE; hematoxylin and eosin; LH; LOAEL; lowest observed adverse effect level; luteinizing hormone; MBP

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; PROLACTIN;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIESTRUS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; MALE; MAMMARY GLAND; NEWBORN PERIOD; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PUBERTY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS INJURY; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; DIET; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENITALIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GROWTH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY HORMONES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 4444227801     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2004.06.013     Document Type: Article

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