Accumulation of organotins in seafood leads to reproductive tract abnormalities in female rats

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2015, Pages 29-42

  Podratz, Priscila L ^a   Merlo, Eduardo ^a   Sena, Gabriela C ^a   Morozesk, Mariana ^a   Bonomo, Marina M ^a   Matsumoto, Silvia T ^a   da Costa, Mércia B ^a   Zamprogno, Gabriela C ^a   Brandão, Poliane A A ^a   Carneiro, Maria T W D ^a   Miguel, Emilio de C ^b   Miranda Alves, Leandro ^c   Silva, Ian V ^a   Graceli, Jones B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Environmental contamination; Organotins accumulated in seafood; Reproductive toxicity

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; PROGESTERONE; TIN; COLLAGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; WATER POLLUTANT;

ABNORMAL ESTROUS CYCLE; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROPOD; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUCOZONIA NASSA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARIAN COLLAGEN DEPOSITION; OVARIAN FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT IMPAIRMENT; OVARIAN SOMATIC INDEX; OVARY DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEA FOOD; UTERINE SOMATIC INDEX; VAGINA SMEAR; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; OVARY; PATHOLOGY; PHARMACOKINETICS; TOXICITY; UTERUS; WATER POLLUTANT; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROPODA; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; OVARY; RATS, WISTAR; SEAFOOD; UTERUS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84939569809     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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