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SUBMITTER: Raj MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3857771 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Raj Manickavel Vinoth MV Selvakumar Kandaswamy K Krishnamoorthy Gunasekaran G Revathy Soundarrajan S Elumalai Perumal P Arunakaran Jagadeesan J
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) 20130607 1
The aim of the study was to evaluate the androgen (AR) and estrogen receptors' (ER) expression in epididymis of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)-exposed rats. The rats were assigned to groups. Group I controls were treated with corn oil 80 µL/d intraperitoneally (ip), group II were treated with 2 mg/kg/d of A1254 ip; and group III were treated with 2 mg/kg/d of A1254 ip along with simultaneous oral supplementation of 4 mg/kg/d lycopene . The treatment was given daily for 30 days. After 24 hours ...[more]