Mixtures of endocrine-disrupting contaminants induce adverse developmental effects in preweaning rats

Reproduction

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 489-501

  Axelstad, Marta ^a   Christiansen, Sofie ^a   Boberg, Julie ^a   Scholze, Martin ^b   Jacobsen, Pernille Rosenskjold ^a   Isling, Louise Krag ^a   Kortenkamp, Andreas ^b   Hass, Ulla ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; PARACETAMOL; PESTICIDE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; PROCHLORAZ; PROCYMIDONE; VINCLOZOLIN; DRUG MIXTURE; POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOGENITAL DISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LACTATION; MALE; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREPUBERTY; PREWEANING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROSTATE VENTRAL LOBE; PROSTATE WEIGHT; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SURVIVAL; WEANING; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BIRTH; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG MIXTURE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SUCKLING ANIMAL; TOXICITY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; COMPLEX MIXTURES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; WEANING;

EID: 84896346429     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0447     Document Type: Article

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