Di(n-butyl) phthalate has no effect on the rat prepubertal testis despite its estrogenic activity in vitro

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 685-689

  Filipiak, Eliza ^a   Walczak Jedrzejowska, Renata ^a   Krupiński, Mariusz ^b   Oszukowska, Elzbieta ^a   Marchlewska, Katarzyna ^a   Długoński, Jerzy ^b   Kula, Krzysztof ^a   Słowikowska Hilczer, Jolanta ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

DBP; Rat; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Yeast estrogen screen

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PREPUBERTY; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSGENE;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84856808306     PISSN: 02398508     EISSN: 18975631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/FHC.2011.0092     Document Type: Article

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