All ZZ male Xenopus laevis provides a clear sex-reversal test for feminizing endocrine disruptors

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 236-243

  Oka, Tomohiro ^a   Mitsui, Naoko ^a   Hinago, Megumi ^b   Miyahara, Maki ^a   Fujii, Takaaki ^a   Tooi, Osamu ^a   Santo, Noriaki ^a   Urushitani, Hiroshi ^b,c   Iguchi, Taisen ^b,c   Hanaoka, Yoichi ^d   Mikami, Hirokazu ^d  

^a Towa Kagaku Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^d GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; All ZZ male; Gonad; Sex reversal; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL;

CHROMOSOME; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FEMINIZATION; FROG; MATING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TADPOLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTIS; TOXICITY TESTS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33744794049     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2005.07.018     Document Type: Article

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