Zearalenone, an estrogenic mycotoxin, is an immunotoxic compound

Toxins

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1080-1095

  Hueza, Isis M ^a   Raspantini, Paulo Cesar F ^b   Raspantini, Leonila Ester R ^b   Latorre, Andreia O ^b   Górniak, Silvana L ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruptor; Estrogen receptor; Immunotoxicology; Rats; Zearalenone

Indexed keywords

ZEARALENONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOID ORGAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RAT; THYMUS ATROPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; ERYTHROCYTES; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SHEEP; SPLEEN; THYMUS GLAND; UTERUS; ZEARALENONE;

EID: 84897848248     PISSN: 20726651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins6031080     Document Type: Article

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