Prenatal exposures of male rats to the environmental chemicals bisphenol A and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate impact the sexual differentiation process

Endocrinology (United States)

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4672-4683

  Abdel Maksoud, Fatma M ^a,b   Leasor, Khrystyna R ^a   Butzen, Kate ^a   Braden, Timothy D ^a   Akingbemi, Benson T ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Assiut University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ACTIN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GENOMIC DNA; GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN LIKE FACTOR 3; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; RELAXIN LIKE FACTOR; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BENZHYDRYL DERIVATIVE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; GATA4 PROTEIN, RAT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLASTICIZER; POLLUTANT; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1, RAT; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOPHYSIS; INFANT; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROID RELEASE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; METABOLISM; PHARMACOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; TESTIS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; PHENOLS; PITUITARY GLAND; PLASTICIZERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS;

EID: 84948151179     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-1077     Document Type: Article

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