Fathead minnow vitellogenin: Complementary DNA sequence and messenger RNA and protein expression after 17β-estradiol treatment

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 972-981

  Korte, Joseph J ^a   Kahl, Michael D ^a   Jensen, Kathleen M ^a   Pasha, Mumtaz S ^a   Parks, Louise G ^b   LeBlanc, Gerald A ^b   Ankley, Gerald T ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; cDNA; mRNA; Pimephales promelas; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; VITELLOGENIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECOTOXICITY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FISH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINIFORMES; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034065799     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190426     Document Type: Article

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