Acute effects of hexabromocyclododecane on Leydig cell cyclic nucleotide signaling and steroidogenesis in vitro

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-90

  Fa, Svetlana ^a   Pogrmic Majkic, Kristina ^a   Dakic, Vanja ^a   Kaisarevic, Sonja ^a   Hrubik, Jelena ^a   Andric, Nebojsa ^a   Stojilkovic, Stanko S ^b   Kovacevic, Radmila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

CAMP signalling; Endocrine disrupters; Hexabromocyclododecane; Leydig cell steroidogenesis; Mitochondrial membrane potential

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; FORSKOLIN; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLAME RETARDANTS; FORSKOLIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; NUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84873621780     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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