The effect of perfluorododecanonic acid on endocrine status, sex hormones and expression of steroidogenic genes in pubertal female rats

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 352-359

  Shi, Zhimin ^a   Zhang, Hongxia ^a   Ding, Lina ^a   Feng, Yixing ^a   Xu, Muqi ^a   Dai, Jiayin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Endocrine status; Estradiol; PFDoA; Steroidogenesis genes

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUORODODECANONIC ACID; SEX HORMONE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PUBERTY; RAT; SERUM; STEROIDOGENESIS; UTERUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GROWTH; LAURIC ACIDS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 67349167649     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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