Atrazine inhibits pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) release without altering GnRH messenger RNA or protein levels in the female rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Foradori, Chad D ^a   Zimmerman, Arthur D ^a   Hinds, Laura R ^b   Zuloaga, Kristen L ^b   Breckenridge, Charles B ^c   Handa, Robert J ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruptors; Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH GnRH receptor)

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; GONADORELIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADORELIN RELEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEDIOBASAL HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HERBICIDES; HYPOTHALAMUS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84877082330     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.102277     Document Type: Article

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