Possible involvement of arylhydrocarbon receptor variants in TCDD-induced thymic atrophy and XRE-dependent transcriptional activity in Wistar Hannover GALAS rats

Journal of Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 209-220

  Kawakami, Takashige ^a,b   Ito, Tomohiro ^a   Ohsako, Seiichiroh ^a,c   Shiizaki, Kazuhiro ^a,e   Murakami, Yoshitaka ^a,f   Hirowatari, Kazunari ^d   Sato, Masao ^b   Tohyama, Chiharu ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d SHIN NIPPON BIOMEDICAL LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^e Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^f SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor; Dioxin; Strain difference; Thymic atrophy; Wistar Hannover GALAS rats

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LIVER WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS ATROPHY; TRANSACTIVATION; WISTAR RAT; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 66149184555     PISSN: 03881350     EISSN: 18803989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2131/jts.34.209     Document Type: Article

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