The effects of benzophenone-3 on apoptosis and the expression of sex hormone receptors in the frontal cortex and hippocampus of rats

This is the first study showing that exposure to BP-3 induces the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway in the rat frontal cortex and this effect may result from a weakening of the neuroprotective effects of oestrogen and/or an intensification of AhR-mediated apoptosis.