Effects of atrazine on female Wistar rats: Morphological alterations in ovarian follicles and immunocytochemical labeling of 90 kDa heat shock protein

Micron

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 607-616

  Juliani, C C ^a   Silva Zacarin, E C M ^a,b   Santos, D C ^c   Boer, P A ^a,c  

^a CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO HERMÍNIO OMETTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell death; Chaperone; Environmental toxicology; Fertility; Folliculogenesis; Granulosa cell; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; BIODIVERSITY; ENDOCRINOLOGY; LABELING; MAMMALS; PEST CONTROL; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PIGMENTS; PLASMAS; PROTEINS; RATS; WEED CONTROL;

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; ADULT FEMALES; ATRAZINE (ATR); CYCLICITY; ELSEVIER (CO); ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; FEMALE WISTAR RATS; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN (HSP); HERBICIDE EXPOSURE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL; IN ORDER; LOW DOSE; OVARIAN FOLLICLES; REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY; SUBCHRONIC; SUBLETHAL DOSES; WISTAR RATS;

HERBICIDES;

ATRAZINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; HERBICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; HERBICIDES; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 44949197583     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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