Cadmium increases human fetal germ cell apoptosis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 331-337

  Angenard, Gaëlle ^a,b,c   Muczynski, Vincent ^a,b,c   Coffigny, Hervé ^a,b,c   Pairault, Catherine ^a,b,c   Duquenne, Clotilde ^a,b,c   Frydman, René ^c,d   Habert, René ^a,b,c   Rouiller Fabre, Virginie ^a,b,c   Livera, Gabriel ^a,b,c  

^a Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Development; Germ cells; Human fetus; Ovary; Testis

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELL; GONAD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TISSUE CULTURE CELL;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CADMIUM; FEMALE; FETUS; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77649205840     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900975     Document Type: Article

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