Maternal exposure to bisphenol A and genistein has minimal effect on A vy/a offspring coat color but favors birth of agouti over nonagouti mice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 537-542

  Rosenfeld, Cheryl S ^a   Sieli, Paizlee T ^a   Warzak, Denise A ^a   Ellersieck, Mark R ^a   Pennington, Kathleen A ^b   Roberts, R Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Epigenetics; Metabolic disease; Pregnancy; Viable yellow mouse

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GENISTEIN; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MOUSE; MULTIPARA; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CROSSES, GENETIC; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; GENISTEIN; HAIR COLOR; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHENOLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AGOUTI; MUS;

EID: 84872203555     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220230110     Document Type: Article

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