Impact of gestational and lactational phthalate exposure on hypothalamic content of amino acid neurotransmitters and FSH secretion in peripubertal male rats

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 747-751

  Carbone, Silvia ^a,b   Szwarcfarb, Berta ^b   Ponzo, Osvaldo ^a   Reynoso, Roxana ^a   Cardoso, Nancy ^a   Deguiz, Laura ^a   Moguilevsky, Jaime A ^a,c   Scacchi, Pablo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aspartate; GABA; Gestational; Gonadotropin; Lactational; Phtalate; Rats

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACTATION; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PERIPUBERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; TESTIS WEIGHT; WEANING;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACTATION; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 78049458877     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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