Dose- and route-dependent hormonal activity of the metalloestrogen cadmium in the rat uterus

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 123-131

  Höfer, Nicola ^a,b   Diel, Patrick ^a   Wittsiepe, Jürgen ^c   Wilhelm, Michael ^c   Degen, Gisela H ^b  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Endocrine disruption; Estrogenic potency; Route of exposure

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING; UTERUS WEIGHT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; HORMONES; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; UTERUS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 70449553848     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.08.014     Document Type: Article

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