Combined exposure of peripubertal male rats to the endocrine-disrupting compound atrazine and power-frequency electromagnetic fields causes degranulation of cutaneous mast cells: A new toxic environmental hazard?

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 334-341

  Rajkovic, Vesna ^a   Matavulj, Milica ^a   Johansson, Olle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ATRAZINE; BODY MASS; CYTOLOGY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEALTH RISK; IMMUNE SYSTEM; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RODENT; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HISTOLOGY; JUVENILE; MALE; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN CELL; STEREOLOGY; ANIMAL; DEGRANULATION; DERMIS; DRUG EFFECT; MAST CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SKIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; CELL DEGRANULATION; DERMIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; MALE; MAST CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SKIN;

EID: 77955478516     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-010-9477-6     Document Type: Article

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