The effects of chronic mercuric chloride ingestion in female Sprague-Dawley rats on fertility and reproduction

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1600-1605

  Heath, J C ^a   Abdelmageed, Y ^a   Braden, T D ^b   Nichols, A C ^c   Steffy, D A ^c  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Female; Fertility; Implantation; Inorganic mercury; Rats; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; PROGESTERONE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEEDING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GESTATION PERIOD; INGESTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MATING; MERCURIALISM; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 67349161843     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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