Vulnerability of the neural circuitry underlying sexual behavior to chronic adult exposure to oral bisphenol A in male mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 502-512

  Picot, Marie ^a,b,c   Naulé, Lydie ^a,b,c   Marie Luce, Clarisse ^a,b,c   Martini, Mariangela ^d,e   Raskin, Kalina ^a,b,c   Grange Messent, Valérie ^a,b,c   Franceschini, Isabelle ^d,e   Keller, Matthieu ^d,e   Mhaouty Kodja, Sakina ^a,b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^d UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; PHEROMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LORDOSIS; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEURAL CIRCUITRY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; KISSPEPTINS; MALE; MICE; NERVE NET; PHENOLS; PREOPTIC AREA; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL;

EID: 84893195627     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1639     Document Type: Article

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