Exposure to bleached kraft pulp mill effluent reduces the steroid biosynthetic capacity of white sucker ovarian follicles

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part C: Comparative

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 169-178

  McMaster, M E ^a   Van Der Kraak, G J ^a   Munkittrick, K R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b GREAT LAKES LABORATORY FOR FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

BKME exposure; cAMP formation; Ovarian steroid production; Steroid biosynthetic capacity; White sucker reproduction

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; ESTRADIOL; PREGNENOLONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; FEMALE; FISH; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; STEROIDOGENESIS; VITELLOGENESIS;

CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI;

EID: 0029582897     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0742-8413(95)02009-8     Document Type: Article

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