Suppressive effects of long-term exposure to P-nitrophenol on gonadal development, hormonal profile with disruption of tissue integrity, and activation of caspase-3 in male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 10930-10942

  Ahmed, Eman ^a,b   Nagaoka, Kentaro ^a   Fayez, Mostafa ^b   Abdel Daim, Mohamed M ^b   Samir, Haney ^a,c   Watanabe, Gen ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

^c Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Caspase 3; Claudin 1; Diesel exhausts particles; Endocrine disrupting compounds; Hypothalamic pituitary axis; Japanese quail; P nitrophenol

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; DIESEL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXHAUST EMISSION; METABOLITE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SECRETION; TESTOSTERONE;

COTURNIX JAPONICA;

4-NITROPHENOL; CASPASE 3; CLAUDIN 1; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; EXHAUST GAS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NITROPHENOL; POLLUTANT; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; COTURNIX; DRUG EFFECTS; EXHAUST GAS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; TESTIS; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; CASPASE 3; CLAUDIN-1; COTURNIX; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NITROPHENOLS; PITUITARY GLAND; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84943284308     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4245-9     Document Type: Article

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