Neonatal exposure to bisphenol A and reproductive and endocrine alterations resembling the polycystic ovarian syndrome in adult rats

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1217-1222

  Fernández, Marina ^a,b   Bourguignon, Nadia ^a   Lux Lantos, Victoria ^a   Libertun, Carlos ^a,b  

^a INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bisphenol A; GnRH pulsatility; Ovary; PCOS; Sex Hormones

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; OVARY; PHENOLS; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77956816691     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901257     Document Type: Article

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