The implications of low-affinity AhR for TCDD insensitivity in frogs

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Elskus, Adria A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; ENVIRONMENTAL POISON; MESSENGER RNA; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA DAMAGE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FROG; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; RELIABILITY; REPORTER GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERATOGENICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; TERATOGENS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TOXICITY TESTS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 27644494387     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfi321     Document Type: Article

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