Ozone treatment prevents the toxicity of an environmental mixture of estrogens on rat fetal testicular development

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 85-92

  Lassonde, Guylaine ^a   Nasuhoglu, Deniz ^b   Pan, Jun Feng ^a   Gaye, Bintou ^a   Yargeau, Viviane ^b   Delbes, Geraldine ^a  

^a INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Fetal testis; Low doses; Mixtures; Organ culture; Ozone; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; OZONE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; EMBRYO; EXPOSURE; FETAL TESTICULAR DEVELOPMENT; GONOCYTE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIUM; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; OZONATION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; LEYDIG CELL; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTIS; TOXICITY; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISINFECTANTS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGANOGENESIS; OZONE; PREGNANCY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84942693638     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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