A rapid and sensitive reporter gene that uses green fluorescent protein expression to detect chemicals with estrogenic activity

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-77

  Miller, S ^a   Kennedy, D ^a   Thomson, J ^a   Han, F ^a   Smith, R ^b   Ing, N ^a   Piedrahita, J ^a   Busbee, D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular steroid receptors; Endocrine disruption; Estrogenic activity; MCF7 ERE cells; Transfection; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYTAMOXIFEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TAMOXIFEN; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPORTER GENE;

EID: 0034022356     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/55.1.69     Document Type: Article

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