The effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on thyroid hormone binding to Xenopus laevis transthyretin and thyroid hormone receptor

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1250-1256

  Yamauchi, Kiyoshi ^a   Eguchi, Ryoji ^a   Shimada, Naoyuki ^a   Ishihara, Akinori ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Competitive binding; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Thyroid hormone receptor; Transthyretin; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 2,4 DINITROPHENOL; 4 NONYLPHENOL; 4 TERT OCTYLPHENOL; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ACETOCHLOR; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZOPHENONE; DICOFOL; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ENDOSULFAN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; IODINE 125; LEVOTHYROXINE; LIGAND; LIOTHYRONINE; MALATHION; METHOPRENE; MIREX; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; PHTHALIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; PREALBUMIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR;

BINDING AFFINITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HORMONE BINDING; INHIBITION KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVIEW; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; PREALBUMIN; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THYROID HORMONES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036919381     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2002.216     Document Type: Review

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