Long-term exposure to environmentally relevant doses of methyl-tert-butyl ether causes significant reproductive dysfunction in the zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2388-2393

  Moreels, David ^a,b   Van Cauwenberghe, Karen ^b   Debaere, Bruno ^b   Rurangwa, Eugène ^b   Vromant, Nico ^b   Bastiaens, Leen ^a   Diels, Ludo ^a   Springael, Dirk ^b   Merckx, Roel ^b   Ollevier, Frans ^b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Methyl tert butyl ether; Sperm quality; Vitellogenin; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CELLS; ETHERS; FISHERIES; GASOLINE;

FECUNDITY; METHYL-TERT-BUTYL ETHER (MTBE); SPERM QUALITY; VITELLOGENIN; ZEBRAFISH;

WATER POLLUTION;

ESTROGEN; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; VITELLOGENIN; ETHER DERIVATIVE; METHYL TERT-BUTYL ETHER;

FECUNDITY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FISH; HATCHING; MTBE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE DISORDER; SPERM; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HATCHING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; LD 50; METABOLISM; OOCYTE;

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; METHYL ETHERS; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOA; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 33750599148     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/05-054R1.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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