Kinetics of selected di-n-butyl phthalate metabolites and fetal testosterone following repeated and single administration in pregnant rats

Toxicology

Volumn 255, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 80-90

  Clewell, Rebecca A ^a,b   Kremer, John J ^b   Williams, Carla C ^b   Campbell, Jerry L ^b   Sochaski, Mark A ^b   Andersen, Melvin E ^b   Borghoff, Susan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HAMNER INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

DBP; Gestation; Kinetics; Phthalate; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

GLUCURONIDE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; TESTOSTERONE;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALIBRATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LIVER; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHTHALIC ACIDS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUINOLINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57349151024     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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