The food contaminant semicarbazide acts as an endocrine disrupter: Evidence from an integrated in vivo/in vitro approach

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-48

  Maranghi, Francesca ^a   Tassinari, Roberta ^a   Marcoccia, Daniele ^a   Altieri, Ilaria ^a   Catone, Tiziana ^a   De Angelis, Giovanna ^a   Testai, Emanuela ^a   Mastrangelo, Sabina ^b   Evandri, Maria Grazia ^b   Bolle, Paola ^b   Lorenzetti, Stefano ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupters; Estrogen receptor alpha; Food contaminant; N methyl D aspartate receptor; Semicarbazide; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AROMATASE; BOLDENONE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; SEMICARBAZIDE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN LNCAP; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; TOXICOKINETICS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CELL LINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEMICARBAZIDES; TESTOSTERONE; VAGINA;

RATTUS;

EID: 71349084218     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2009.09.016     Document Type: Article

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