Effects of organotin compounds on pubertal male rats

Toxicology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 145-158

  Grote, Konstanze ^a   Stahlschmidt, Beate ^a   Talsness, Chris E ^a   Gericke, Christine ^a   Appel, Klaus E ^b   Chahoud, Ibrahim ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Male; Methyltestosterone; Puberty; Reproduction; Tributyltin; Triphenyltin

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; TRIBUTYLTIN; TRIPHENYLTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENITALIA, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; PENIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE; TOXICITY TESTS; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 4444349546     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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