Region-specific growth effects in the developing rat prostate following fetal exposure to estrogenic ultraviolet filters

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 867-872

  Hofkamp, Luke ^a   Bradley, Sarahann ^a   Tresguerres, Jesus ^b   Lichtensteiger, Walter ^c   Schlumpf, Margret ^c   Timms, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

4 methylbenzylidene camphor (4 MBC); Endocrine disruptors; Prostate development; UV filters

Indexed keywords

3 (4 METHYLBENZYLIDENE)CAMPHOR; 3 BENZYLIDENE CAMPHOR; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; SUNSCREEN;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FILTER; FOOD INTAKE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; RAT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BENZYL COMPOUNDS; CAMPHOR; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSTATE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SUNSCREENING AGENTS;

ANIMALIA; DRYOBALANOPS; RATTUS;

EID: 46749085128     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10983     Document Type: Article

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