Development of chronic tests for endocrine active chemicals. Part 2: An extended fish early-life stage test with an androgenic chemical in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 119-130

  Bogers, Rinus ^a   De Vries Buitenweg, Selinda ^a   Van Gils, Mariëlle ^a   Baltussen, Erik ^a   Hargreaves, Adam ^b   van de Waart, Beppy ^a   De Roode, Daphne ^a   Legler, Juliette ^c   Murk, Albertinka ^d  

^a Notox BV   (Netherlands)

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

^c INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fish; Gonad histology; Methyldihydrostestosterone; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN 4 TERT PENTYLPHENOL; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; METHANDRIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FISH; LIFE CYCLE; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; EMBRYO; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXTENDED FISH EARLY LIFE STAGE TEST; FEMALE; FISH; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYPRINIDAE; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS; VITELLOGENINS;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 33750975075     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2006.07.020     Document Type: Article

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