Endocrine disruption of brain sexual differentiation by developmental PCB exposure

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 581-594

  Dickerson, Sarah M ^a   Cunningham, Stephanie L ^a   Patisaul, Heather B ^b   Woller, Michael J ^c   Gore, Andrea C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROCLOR; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; PROTEIN FOS; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIBER; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATURATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; NERVE CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 79951633248     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-1103     Document Type: Article

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