The effect of experimental long-term exposure to low-dose zearalenone on uterine histology in sexually immature gilts

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 537-542

  Gajecka, Magadalena ^a   Rybarczyk, Lech ^b   Jakimiuk, Ewa ^a   Zielonka, Łukasz ^a   Obremski, Kazimierz ^a   Zwierzchowski, Wojciech ^a   Gajecki, Maciej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b Provincial Veterinary Inspectorate in Wrocław ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Gilts; Histology; Immunohistology; Proliferation index; Uterus; Zearalenone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GELATIN; ZEARALENONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ATYPICAL ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORDERS OF HORMONE METABOLISM; EDEMA; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GILT (SWINE); GROWTH STIMULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPEREMIA; HYPERESTROGENISM; IMMATURITY; IMMUNE STATUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE LEVEL; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; SWINE; UTERUS; ZEARALENONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864497790     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: 16181433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2010.11.009     Document Type: Review

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