Increased circulating levels of testosterone and corticosterone in southern toads, Bufo terrestris, exposed to coal combustion waste

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 237-246

  Hopkins, William A ^a   Mendonça, Mary T ^a   Congdon, Justin D ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL WASTE; COAL GASIFICATION; COMBUSTION; CONTAMINATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HORMONE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; TOAD;

BUFO TERRESTRIS;

EID: 0030856123     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6969     Document Type: Article

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