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Fučić,A.; Stojkovic,R.; Katić,J.; Markovic,D.; Ferencic,Z.; Koršić,M.; Jazbec,A.M.; Gamulin,M.. |
Environmental xenoestrogens pose a significant health risk for all living organisms. There is growing evidence concerning the different susceptibility to xenoestrogens of developing and adult organisms, but little is known about their genotoxicity in pre-pubertal mammals. In the present study, we developed an animal model to test the sex- and age-specific genotoxicity of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) on the reticulocytes of 3-week-old pre-pubertal and 12-week-old adult BALB/CJ mice using the in vivo micronucleus (MN) assay. DES was administered intraperitoneally at doses of 0.05, 0.5, and 5 µg/kg for 3 days and animals were sampled 48, 72 and 96 h, and 2 weeks after exposure. Five animals were analyzed for each dose, sex, and age group.... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Diethylstilbestrol; Estrogen; Puberty; In vivo micronucleus assay; Sex; Genotoxicity. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2009001100015 |
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