Gene expression changes related to endocrine function and decline in reproduction in fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) after dietary methylmercury exposure

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1337-1343

  Klaper, Rebecca ^a   Rees, Christopher B ^a   Drevnick, Paul ^b   Weber, Daniel ^a   Sandheinrich, Mark ^c   Carvan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Gene expression; Mercury; Methylmercury; Microarray; Pimephales promelas; Reproduction; Toxicogenomics; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLMERCURY; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33748190775     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8786     Document Type: Article

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