A biomarker approach to endocrine disruption in flounder - Estrogen receptors, hepatocyte proliferation, and sperm motility

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 324-334

  Kleinkauf, Anne ^a,b   Macfarlane, Chris ^a   Yeates, Sarah ^a   Simpson, Michael G ^a   Leah, Richard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dee; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen receptors; Flounder; Hepatocyte proliferation; Mersey; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOMARKER; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; IMMATURITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIVISION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GREAT BRITAIN; HEPATOCYTES; MALE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEAWATER; SPERM MOTILITY; TIME FACTORS; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOBIOTICS;

PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 3042543025     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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