Environmental pollution caused elevated concentrations of oestradiol and vitellogenin in the female flounder, Platichthys flesus (L.)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 195-214

  Janssen, P A H ^a   Lambert, J G D ^a   Vethaak, A D ^b   Goos, H J Th ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flounder; Oestradiol; Oestrogen synthesis; Ovary; Plasma; Platichthys flesus; Pollution; Reproductive cycle; Teleost; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

DREDGE SPOIL; FLOUNDER; OESTRADIOL; POLLUTION; POLLUTION EFFECTS; REPRODUCTION; STEROIDS; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FLATFISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0030662431     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-445X(97)00036-2     Document Type: Article

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