Fish zona radiata (eggshell) protein: A sensitive biomarker for environmental estrogens

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 418-422

  Arukwe, Augustine ^a   Knudsen, Frank R ^b   Goksøyr, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecotoxicology; Biomarkers; Eggshell protein; Fish; Nonylphenol; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON;

EID: 0030922209     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105418     Document Type: Article

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