The industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) interferes with proliferative activity and development of steroidogenic capacity in rat Leydig cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Nanjappa, Manjunatha K ^a   Simon, Liz ^b   Akingbemi, Benson T ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Environmental contaminants and toxicants; Leydig cells; Sertoli cells; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROGEN; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PROTEIN KINASE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; 3 (OR 17) BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3 (OR 17)-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ESTROGEN; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; STEROID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE RELEASE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY;

RATTUS;

17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; PHENOLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, LH; STEROIDS;

EID: 84864019779     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.095349     Document Type: Article

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