Cadmium as an endocrine disruptor: Correlation with anterior pituitary redox and circadian clock mechanisms and prevention by melatonin

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2287-2297

  Jiménez Ortega, Vanesa ^a   Cano Barquilla, Pilar ^a   Fernández Mateos, Pilar ^a,b   Cardinali, Daniel P ^c,d   Esquifino, Ana I ^a  

^a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology III ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA ARGENTINA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Circadian rhythms; Corticosterone; Free radicals; Gene expression; LH; Melatonin; Prolactin; Redox state; TSH

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HEME OXYGENASE 2; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LIPID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN I; METALLOTHIONEIN III; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BMAL1 GENE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOCK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CRY1 GENE; CRY2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PER1 GENE; PER2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROLACTIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

CADMIUM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS; CORTICOSTERONE; FREE RADICALS; GENE EXPRESSION; LH; MELATONIN; PROLACTIN; REDOX STATE; TSH;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CATALASE; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MELATONIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THYROTROPIN;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84870221698     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2012.10.533     Document Type: Article

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