Developmental exposure of mice to dioxin promotes transgenerational testicular inflammation and an increased risk of preterm birth in unexposed mating partners

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Bruner Tran, Kaylon L ^a   Ding, Tianbing ^a   Yeoman, Kallie B ^a   Archibong, Anthony ^b   Arosh, Joe A ^c   Osteen, Kevin G ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DIOXIN; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; POLLUTANT;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORCHITIS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SUBFERTILITY; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; INFLAMMATION; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 84940233576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105084     Document Type: Article

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