Irreversible thyroid disruption induced after subchronic exposure to hexachlorobenzene in male rats

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 822-831

  Chalouati, Hela ^a   Gamet Payrastre, Laurence ^b   Saad, Moncef Ben ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b TOXALIM RESEARCH CENTRE IN FOOD TOXICOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Hexachlorobenzene; rats; recovery; thyroid hormones; TSH

Indexed keywords

HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBCHRONIC EXPOSURE; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPERPLASIA; PATHOLOGY; THYROID FOLLICULAR CELL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYROID EPITHELIAL CELLS; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TOXICITY TESTS, SUBCHRONIC; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84968764952     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233713511511     Document Type: Article

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