SOT symposium highlight: Translatable indicators of testicular toxicity: Inhibin B, microRNAs, and sperm signatures

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 265-273

  Dere, Edward ^a,b   Anderson, Linnea M ^b   Coulson, Michelle ^c   McIntyre, Barry S ^d   Boekelheide, Kim ^b   Chapin, Robert E ^e  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Inhibin B; Micro RNA; Sperm; Testicular toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN BINDING PROTEIN; CREATINE; DICER; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; FOLLITROPIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; INHIBIN B; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SIRTUIN 3; TESTOSTERONE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DNA METHYLATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GOVERNMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERTOLI CELL; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SUBFERTILITY; SYMPOSIUM; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TRANSLATABLE INDICATOR OF TESTICULAR TOXICITY;

BIOMARKERS; INHIBIN B; MICRORNA; SPERM.; TESTICULAR TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MALE; MICRORNAS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84890366584     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kft207     Document Type: Article

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