Morphological sex reversal upon short-term exposure to endocrine modulators in juvenile fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 51-63

  Zerulla, Melanie ^a   Lange R ^a   Steger Hartmann, T ^a   Panter, G ^b   Hutchinson, T ^b   Dietrich, D R ^c  

^a BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aromatisation; Fadrozole; Fathead minnow; Methyltestosterone; Sex reversal

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTROGEN; FADROZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; SURFACE WATER; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FISH; HOMOGENATE; JUVENILE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; VIRILIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CYPRINIDAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FADROZOLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTOSTERONE CONGENERS; VITELLOGENINS;

CYPRINIFORMES; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PIMEPHALES; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 0037052863     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(02)00070-X     Document Type: Article

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