Multiple endocrine disrupting effects in rats perinatally exposed to butylparaben

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 244-256

  Boberg, J ^a   Axelstad, M ^a   Svingen, T ^a   Mandrup, K ^a   Christiansen, S ^a   Vinggaard, A M ^a   Hass, U ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breast; Endocrine disruption; Paraben; Prostate; Reproduction; Sexual development; Testis

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BUTYL PARABEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; 4 HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ESTER; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1, RAT;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOGENITAL DISTANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDIDYMAL TISSUE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAMMARY GLAND; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NR5A1 GENE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PERINATAL EXPOSURE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREPUBERTY; PROGENY; PROSTATE WEIGHT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; WISTAR RAT; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; OVARY; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATE; UDDER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROMATASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; OVARY; PARABENS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROSTATE; RATS, WISTAR; SPERM COUNT; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTIS;

EID: 84991338317     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfw079     Document Type: Article

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