Genre
- Journal Article
Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) is a fungicide and a pollutant of increasing concern in industrialized regions of the world. Reproductive failure is one of the effects of HCB upon mammals. Alteration of cell shape in the ovary surface epithelium (OSE) of Cynomolgus monkeys following oral administration of HCB was observed in this study. At the lowest dose used, 0.1 mg/kg body weight, a dosage that is associated with follicular degeneration, HCB caused quantifiable changes in length-to-width ratios of OSE. Measurement of cell shape by light microscopy offers a reliable indication of OSE changes induced by HCB.
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada.
SPAIN
LR: 20051117; PUBM: Print; JID: 8609357; 0 (Chorionic Gonadotropin); 0 (Environmental Pollutants); 118-74-1 (Hexachlorobenzene); 9002-67-9 (Luteinizing Hormone); 9002-68-0 (Follicle Stimulating Hormone); ppublish
Source type: Electronic(1)
Language
- English
Subjects
- Luteinizing Hormone/administration & dosage
- animals
- Epithelium/drug effects
- Environmental Pollutants/toxicity
- Lipid Metabolism
- Reproduction/drug effects
- Hexachlorobenzene/toxicity
- Follicle Stimulating Hormone/administration & dosage
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Ovary/drug effects/metabolism/pathology
- Macaca fascicularis
- Chorionic Gonadotropin/administration & dosage
- Female