Exposure to the herbicide acetochlor alters thyroid hormone-dependent gene expression and metamorphosis in Xenopus laevis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1199-1205

  Crump, Doug ^a   Werry, Kate ^a   Veldhoen, Nik ^a   Van Aggelen, Graham ^b   Helbing, Caren C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Pacific Environmental Science Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetochlor; cDNA array; Endocrine disruptor; Gene expression; Herbicides; Metamorphosis; Persistent organic; Pollutants; Tadpoles; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

3,3',5' TRIIODOTHYRONINE; ACETOCHLOR; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HERBICIDE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TADPOLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036917531     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.021101199     Document Type: Review

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