Atrazine inhibits pulsatile luteinizing hormone release without altering pituitary sensitivity to a gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor agonist in female wistar rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-45

  Foradori, Chad D ^a,b   Hinds, Laura R ^a,b   Hanneman, William H ^a   Legare, Marie E ^a   Clay, Colin M ^a   Handa, Robert J ^a,b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Hypothalamus; Neuroendocrinology; Pituitary; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HERBICIDES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PITUITARY GLAND; PULSATILE FLOW; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, LHRH; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 67649648216     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.075713     Document Type: Article

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