Beyond The Abstract Combined Exposure To Anti Androgens Causes Markedly Increased Frequencies Of Hypospadias In The Rat

Main Category: Urology / Nephrology
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Article Date: 08 Mar 2008 - 0:00 PDT

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UroToday.com - The study is a part of a larger study on mixtures of anti-androgens in a rat model. We expose the pregnant rats to the endocrine disrupters to estimate the risk for developmental effects on the offspring. Two central references for Christiansen et al. 2008 are:

Hass, U., Scholze, M., Christiansen, S., Dalgaard, M., Vinggaard, A. M., Axelstad, M. et al. (2007) Combined Exposure to Anti-Androgens Exacerbates Disruption of Sexual Differentiation in the Rat. Environmental Health Perspectives 115: 122-128.

Metzdorff, S. B., Dalgaard, M., Christiansen, S., Axelstad, M., Hass, U., Kiersgaard, M. K. et al. (2007) Dysgenesis and histological changes of genitals and perturbations of gene expression in male rats after in utero exposure to antiandrogen mixtures. Toxicol Sci 98: 87-98.

This work was supported by the European Commission, and financially supported by the European Union as part of the EDEN-project Endocrine Disrupters: Exploring Novel Endpoints, Exposure, Low Dose and Mixture-Effects in Humans, Aquatic Wildlife and Laboratory Animal' (QLK4-CT-2002-00603), and by the Danish Research Council grant no. 2107-04-0006.

Written by Sofie Christiansen, MD as part of Beyond the Abstract on UroToday.com. This initiative offers a method of publishing for the professional urology community. Authors are given an opportunity to expand on the circumstances, limitations, etc., of their research by referencing the published abstract.

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