Chronic treatment with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) during pregnancy and lactation in the rat. Part 1: Effects on somatic growth, growth hormone-axis activity and bone mass in the offspring

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-136

  Cocchi, Daniela ^a   Tulipano, Giovanni ^a   Colciago, Alessandra ^b   Sibilia, Valeria ^b   Pagani, Francesca ^b   Viganò, Daniela ^c   Rubino, Tiziana ^c   Parolaro, Daniela ^c   Bonfanti, Patrizia ^d   Colombo, Anita ^d   Celotti, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone; Growth hormone; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Rat; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GROWTH HORMONE; HEXACHLOROBIPHENYL; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL 126; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL 138; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL 153; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL 180; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOSTATIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY GROWTH; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; EPIPHYSEAL CARTILAGE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LACTATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; TIBIA; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIVER; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SOMATOSTATIN; THYROID HORMONES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 67349200774     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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