Potentiation of the vitellogenic response to 17α-ethinylestradiol by cortisol in the fathead minnow Pimephales promelas

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1125-1132

  Brodeur, Julie C ^a   Woodburn, Kent B ^a   Klecka, Gary M ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

17 ethinylestradiol; Cortisol; Fish; Stress; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMARKERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HORMONES; PLASMAS; RNA;

CORTISOLS; ESTROGENS; VITELLOGENIN (VTG);

TOXICITY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; VITELLOGENIN;

CYPRINID; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EVALUATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRESS; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYPRINIDAE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HYDROCORTISONE; LIVER; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; NORETHYNODREL; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; VITELLOGENINS;

CYPRINIFORMES; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 18244368734     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-309R.1     Document Type: Article

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