Fish full life-cycle testing for androgen methyltestosterone on medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 774-781

  Seki, Masanori ^a   Yokota, Hirofumi ^a   Matsubara, Haruki ^a   Maeda, Masanobu ^a   Tadokoro, Hiroshi ^a   Kobayashi, Kunio ^a  

^a CHEMICALS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen; Endocrine disrupter; Full life cycle test; Medaka; Methyltestosterone

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HORMONES; LIFE CYCLE;

HATCHING; POSTFERTILIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

METHYLTESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

ANDROGEN; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FISH; LIFE CYCLE; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FISH; GROWTH; HATCHING; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MASCULINITY; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GONADS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; JAPAN; LIVER; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; ORYZIAS; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VITELLOGENESIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; LATIPES; ORYZIAS LATIPES;

EID: 31244435486     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-26     Document Type: Article

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