Maternal exposure to dioxin imprints sexual immaturity of the pups through fixing the status of the reduced expression of hypothalamic gonadotropin- releasing hormone

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-82

  Takeda, Tomoki ^a   Fujii, Misaki ^a   Hattori, Yukiko ^a   Yamamoto, Midori ^b   Shimazoe, Takao ^a   Ishii, Yuji ^a   Himeno, Masaru ^b   Yamada, Hideyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; DNA; GONADORELIN; HISTONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HISTONE ACETYLATION; IMMATURITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL IMMATURITY; TERATOGENESIS;

EID: 84890599626     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.113.088575     Document Type: Article

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