Endocrine disrupters with (anti)estrogenic and (anti)androgenic modes of action affecting reproductive biology of Xenopus laevis: I. Effects on sex steroid levels and biomarker expression

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 310-318

  Urbatzka, Ralph ^a   Bottero, Sergio ^b   Mandich, Alberta ^b   Lutz, Ilka ^a   Kloas, Werner ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Endocrine disruption; Gene expression; Retinol binding protein; Sex steroids; Transferrin; Transthyretin; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; METHANDRIOL; PREALBUMIN; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; RIVER WATER; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFERRIN; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; ITALY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REPRODUCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WATER POLLUTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33846582283     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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