Reductions in steroid hormone biotransformation/elimination as a biomarker of pentachlorophenol chronic toxicity

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 291-303

  Parks, Louise G ^a   LeBlanc, Gerald A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Biotransformation; Chronic toxicity; Daphnia; Endocrine disrupter; Glucosyl transferase; Hydroxylase; Pentachlorophenol; Steroid hormones; Sulfotransferase

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; OXYGENASE; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; STEROID HORMONE; SULFOTRANSFERASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; STEROID METABOLISM; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM;

EID: 0030014303     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-445X(95)00045-6     Document Type: Article

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