Exposure to the widely used fungicide mancozeb causes thyroid hormone disruption in rat dams but no behavioral effects in the offspring

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 439-446

  Axelstad, Marta ^a   Boberg, Julie ^a   Nellemann, Christine ^a   Kiersgaard, Maria ^a   Jacobsen, Pernille Rosenskjold ^a   Christiansen, Sofie ^a   Hougaard, Karin Sørig ^b   Hass, Ulla ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behavior; Developmental neurotoxicity; Mancozeb; Rats; Thyroid disrupting chemicals

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; MANCOZEB; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; RAT; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 79953097693     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfr006     Document Type: Article

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