The calux (chemical-activated luciferase expression) assay adapted and validated for measuring TCDD equivalents in blood plasma

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1583-1589

  Murk, Albertinka J ^c   Leonards, Pim E G ^a   Bulder, Astrid S ^c   Jonas, Arjen S ^c   Rozemeijer, Marcel J C ^c   Denison, Michael S ^b   Koeman, Jan H ^c   Brouwer, Abraham ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Biomarker; Blood plasma; Lipids; PHAH; Reporter gene assay

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; DIOXIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DUCK; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANIMALIA; ERAGROSTIS TEF; PHOTINUS PYRALIS; PYRALIS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 0030754631     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<1583:TCCALE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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