Exposure to bisphenol A results in a decline in mouse spermatogenesis

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 847-859

  Zhang, Guo Liang ^a   Zhang, Xi Feng ^a,b   Feng, Yan Min ^a   Li, Lan ^a   Huynh, Evanna ^c   Sun, Xiao Feng ^a   Sun, Zhong Yi ^d   Shen, Wei ^a  

^a QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; meiosis; oestrogen receptor

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DNA METHYLATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INFERTILITY, MALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PHENOLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84880202410     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12159     Document Type: Article

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