Effect of ETBE on reproductive steroids in male rats and rat Leydig cell cultures

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-80

  de Peyster, Ann ^a   Stanard, Bradley ^a   Westover, Christian ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ETBE; Isolated Leydig cells; Male rats; MTBE; Reproductive steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORN OIL; ESTRADIOL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; STEROID HORMONE; TERT BUTYL ALCOHOL; TERT BUTYL ETHYL ETHER; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FISCHER 344 RAT; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE INHIBITION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; ETHYL ETHERS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; METHYL ETHERS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 68449102157     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.06.879     Document Type: Article

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