Fetal adrenal development: Comparing effects of combined exposures to PCB 118 and PCB 153 in a sheep model

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 164-177

  Zimmer, Karin E ^a   Kraugerud, Marianne ^a   Aleksandersen, Mona ^a   Gutleb, Arno C ^a,c   Østby, Gunn C ^a   Dahl, Ellen ^a   Berg, Vidar ^a   Skaare, Janneche U ^a,b   Olsaker, Ingrid ^a   Ropstad, Erik ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland; Cortisol; Endocrine disruption; Fetus; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROL GROUPS; CORN OIL; CROSS CONTAMINATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; EXPOSED TO; FETUS; GENES ENCODING ENZYMES; PCB 153; PCB CONGENERS; PLASMA CORTISOL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); SHEEP MODEL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TISSUE LEVELS;

CORTISOL; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TISSUE; VEGETABLE OILS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

2,2',4,4',5,5' HEXACHLOROBIPHENYL; CORN OIL; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; PCB 118; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; NEONATE; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; STEROID;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; ORGANOGENESIS; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; STEROIDOGENESIS; THICKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84874198558     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20703     Document Type: Article

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