Effects of maternal cadmium exposure during late pregnant period on testicular steroidogenesis in male offspring

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-78

  Ji, Yan Li ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Liu, Ping ^a   Zhao, Xian Feng ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Wang, Qun ^a   Zhang, Heng ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Duan, Zi Hao ^a   Meng, Can ^b   Xu, De Xiang ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Fetus; Placenta; Steroidogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY WEIGHT; CADMIUM; CADMIUM POISONING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SIZE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SPERMATOZOA; STEROIDS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

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EID: 79959970954     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.05.233     Document Type: Article

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