Comparative effects of di(n-butyl) phthalate exposure on fetal germ cell development in the rat and in human fetal testis xenografts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 223-230

  van den Driesche, Sander ^a   McKinnell, Chris ^a   Calarrão, Ana ^a   Kennedy, Laura ^a   Hutchison, Gary R ^a   Hrabalkova, Lenka ^a   Jobling, Matthew S ^a   Macpherson, Sheila ^a   Anderson, Richard A ^a   Sharpe, Richard M ^a   Mitchell, Rod T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; MELANOMA ANTIGEN 4; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; VIMENTIN; DANGEROUS GOODS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; COLON POLYPOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN FETAL TESTIS XENOGRAFT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; STEREOMETRY; XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DANGEROUS GOODS; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS; TESTIS; TOXICITY;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIBUTYL PHTHALATE; FETUS; GERM CELLS; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84925099758     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408248     Document Type: Article

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