Postweaning exposure to dietary zearalenone, a mycotoxin, promotes premature onset of puberty and disrupts early pregnancy events in female mice

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 431-442

  Zhao, Fei ^a   Li, Rong ^a   Xiao, Shuo ^a   Diao, Honglu ^a   Viveiros, Maria M ^a   Song, Xiao ^a   Ye, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo development; Embryo implantation; Embryo transport; Fertilization; Vaginal opening; Zearalenone

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; PHYTOESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; ZEARALENONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UTERUS; WEANING;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOTOXINS; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL MATURATION; WEANING; ZEARALENONE;

EID: 84875268773     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfs343     Document Type: Article

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