Prenatal PCBs disrupt early neuroendocrine development of the rat hypothalamus

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-46

  Dickerson, Sarah M ^a   Cunningham, Stephanie L ^a   Gore, Andrea C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anteroventral periventricular nucleus; Developmental apoptosis; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen receptor; Hypothalamus; Medial preoptic nucleus; Neuroendocrine development; Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; AROCLOR; AROCLOR 1221; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2C; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; PRODYNORPHIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREOPTIC AREA; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 79952623721     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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