Altered cardiovascular reactivity and osmoregulation during hyperosmotic stress in adult rats developmentally exposed to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-113

  Shah, Ashini ^a   Coburn, Cary G ^a   Watson Siriboe, Abena ^a   Whitley, Rebecca ^a   Shahidzadeh, Anoush ^a   Gillard, Elizabeth R ^a   Nichol, Robert ^a   Leon Olea, Martha ^b   Gaertner, Mark ^a   Kodavanti, Prasada Rao S ^c   Currás Collazo, Margarita C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Flame retardants; Heart rate; Hyperosmotic; Hypertension; Kidney; Neuroendocrine; Organohalogens; Osmoregulation; Perinatal exposure; Supraoptic nucleus; Thyroid hormones; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER 100; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER 153; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER 154; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER 47; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER 99; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; HYPERTENSION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOREGULATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; MALE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; VASOPRESSINS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80053131327     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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