The effects of ammonium perchlorate on thyroid homeostasis and thyroid-specific gene expression in rat

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 445-452

  Wu, Fenghong ^a   Zhou, Xuan ^a   Zhang, Rao ^a   Pan, Meizhu ^a   Peng, Kai Liang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Perchlorate; Sodium iodide symporter; Thyroglobulin; Thyroid homeostasis; Thyroid specific gene; Thyroperoxidase

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM PERCHLORATES; BODY WEIGHT; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; DEFENSE INDUSTRY; HIGH DOSE; IODIDE UPTAKE; PERCHLORATE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLANDS; THYROID HOMEOSTASIS; THYROID HORMONES; THYROPEROXIDASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HORMONES; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; IODINE; PHYSIOLOGY;

INORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE; LIOTHYRONINE; PERCHLORATE; SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMMONIUM COMPOUND; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BODY MASS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTOXICITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE; INHIBITION; IODINE; PERCHLORATE; RODENT; WEIGHT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GOITER; HOMEOSTASIS; INTOXICATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERTROPHY; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IODIDES; IODINE; MALE; PERCHLORIC ACID; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

RATTUS;

EID: 84863576638     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20655     Document Type: Article

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