The pyrethroid pesticide esfenvalerate suppresses the afternoon rise of luteinizing hormone and delays puberty in female rats

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1243-1247

  Pine, Michelle D ^a   Hiney, Jill K ^a   Lee, Boyeon ^a   Dees, W Les ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Esfenvalerate; Hypothalamus; Luteinizing hormone; Ppuberty; Pyrethroid pesticides

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; ESTRADIOL; FENVALERATE; GONADORELIN; INSECTICIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; PYRETHROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INSECTICIDES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NITRILES; PYRETHRINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 54149109146     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11119     Document Type: Article

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