Male and female mice show significant differences in hepatic transcriptomic response to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lee, Jamie ^a   Prokopec, Stephenie D ^a   Watson, John D ^a   Sun, Ren X ^a,b   Pohjanvirta, Raimo ^c,d   Boutros, Paul C ^a,b,e  

^a ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo p dioxin; AHR; Aryl hydrocarbon receptor; Sex differences; TCDD

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; CYTOCHROME P450 1A2; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; TRANSCRIPTOME; CELL RECEPTOR; CONSTITUTIVE ANDROSTANE RECEPTOR; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

ADULT; AHRR GENE; ALDH3A1 GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP1A1 GENE; CYP1A2 GENE; CYP1B1 GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FMO1 GENE; FMO3 GENE; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INMT GENE; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NFE2L2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NQO1 GENE; NR1I3 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIPARP GENE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIVER; MALE; MICE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXINS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84939491217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1840-6     Document Type: Article

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