In utero and lactational exposures to diethylhexyl-phthalate affect two populations of leydig cells in male long-evans rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 882-888

  Lin, Han ^a,b   Lian, Qing Quan ^b   Hu, Guo Xin ^b   Jin, Yuan ^b   Zhang, Yunhui ^a   Hardy, Dianne O ^a   Chen, Guo Rong ^b   Lu, Zhong Qiu ^b   Sottas, Chantal M ^a   Hardy, Matthew P ^a   Ge, Ren Shan ^a,b,c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diethylhexyl phthalate; Leydig cells; Luteinizing hormone; Steroidogenesis; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANUS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GESTATIONAL AGE; LACTATION; LEYDIG CELL; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; PUP (RODENT); RAT; RAT STRAIN; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTATION; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PLASTICIZERS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE;

RATTUS;

EID: 65949110564     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.072975     Document Type: Article

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