Oral, short-term exposure to titanium dioxide nanoparticles in Sprague-Dawley rat: Focus on reproductive and endocrine systems and spleen

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 654-662

  Tassinari, Roberta ^a   Cubadda, Francesco ^a   Moracci, Gabriele ^a   Aureli, Federica ^a   D'Amato, Marilena ^a   Valeri, Mauro ^a   De Berardis, Barbara ^a   Raggi, Andrea ^a   Mantovani, Alberto ^a   Passeri, Daniele ^b   Rossi, Marco ^b   Maranghi, Francesca ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Histopathology; in vivo study; Nanosized TiO2; Sexual steroids; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LIOTHYRONINE; NANOPARTICLE; TESTOSTERONE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PARTICLE INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPLEEN; TARGET ORGAN; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE LEVEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UTERUS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; EATING; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TITANIUM; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84890344199     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2013.822114     Document Type: Article

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