Disruption of thyroid hormone receptor-mediated transcription and thyroid hormone-induced purkinje cell dendrite arborization by Polybrominated diphenyl ethers

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 168-175

  Ibhazehiebo, Kingsley ^a   Iwasaki, Toshiharu ^a   Kimura Kuroda, Junko ^b   Miyazaki, Wataru ^a,c   Shimokawa, Noriaki ^a   Koibuchi, Noriyuki ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flame retardants; Gene regulation; Neurodevelopment; Neurogenesis; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs); Thyroid

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA DETERMINATION; HYDROXYLATION; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HAPLORHINI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; WISTAR RAT;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HAPLORHINI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PREGNANCY; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952628793     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002065     Document Type: Article

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