The effect of atrazine administered by gavage or in diet on the lh surge and reproductive performance in intact female sprague-dawley and long evans rats

Birth Defects Research Part B - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 262-275

  Foradori, Chad D ^a   Sawhney Coder, Prägati ^b   Tisdel, Merrill ^c   Yi, Kun Don ^c   Simpkins, James W ^d   Handa, Robert J ^e   Breckenridge, Charles B ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mating fertility; Pesticides; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; HERBICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEEDING; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; LITTER SIZE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVULATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; DIET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84903604729     PISSN: 15429733     EISSN: 15429741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrb.21109     Document Type: Article

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