Exposure of mice to atrazine and its metabolite diaminochlorotriazine elicits oxidative stress and endocrine disruption

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 782-790

  Jin, Yuanxiang ^a   Wang, Linggang ^a   Chen, Guanliang ^a   Lin, Xiaojian ^a   Miao, Wenyu ^a   Fu, Zhengwei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Diaminochlorotriazine; Endocrine disruption; Mice; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; CATALASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME P450 17; DIAMINOCHLOROTRIAZINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR BI; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HERBICIDE; SCARB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR B; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; P45017A GENE; P450SCC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SRB1 GENE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; LIVER; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; BODY WEIGHT; CATALASE; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HERBICIDES; LIVER; MALE; MICE, INBRED ICR; ORGAN SIZE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SCAVENGER RECEPTORS, CLASS B; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84896058175     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: 18727077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2014.02.014     Document Type: Article

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