Fluoride-elicited developmental testicular toxicity in rats: Roles of endoplasmic reticulum stress and inflammatory response

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 206-215

  Zhang, Shun ^a   Jiang, Chunyang ^a,b   Liu, Hongliang ^c   Guan, Zhizhong ^d   Zeng, Qiang ^c   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Lei, Rongrong ^a   Xia, Tao ^a   Gao, Hui ^a   Yang, Lu ^a   Chen, Yihu ^a   Wu, Xue ^a   Zhang, Xiaofei ^a   Cui, Yushan ^c   Yu, Linyu ^c   Wang, Zhenglun ^a   Wang, Aiguo ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Tianjin Union Medicine Centre   (China)

^c TIANJIN CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d GUIZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Endoplasmic reticulum stress; Fluoride; Inflammation; Oxidative stress; Testis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FLUORIDE; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INOSITOL; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MALONALDEHYDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN IRE1; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS INJURY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; FLUORIDE; INFLAMMATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM FLUORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS;

EID: 84880416818     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2013.04.033     Document Type: Article

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