Development of chronic tests for endocrine active chemicals. Part 1. An extended fish early-life stage test for oestrogenic active chemicals in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 279-290

  Panter, G H ^a   Hutchinson, T H ^a   Hurd, K S ^a   Bamforth, J ^a   Stanley, R D ^a   Duffell, S ^b   Hargreaves, A ^b   Gimeno, S ^c   Tyler, C R ^d  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4 tert Pentylphenol; Fish; Gonad histology; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

4 TERT PENTYLPHENOL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN; WATER;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EMBRYO; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HATCHING; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY TEST;

AGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DILUTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; FISH; GENITAL SYSTEM; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; HERMAPHRODITISM; HISTOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; ORYZIAS; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SURVIVAL; TESTIS DISEASE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CYPRINIDAE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GONADS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; PHENOLS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS; VITELLOGENINS;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 33646544078     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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