Toxicity of the aromatase inhibitor letrozole to Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) eggs, larvae and breeding adults

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 533-541

  Sun, Liwei ^a   Zha, Jinmiao ^a   Spear, Philip A ^b   Wang, Zijian ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupting chemical; Estrogen; Sex ratio; Teleost; Transgenerational effects; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; LETROZOLE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EGG; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; HATCHING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORYZIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAWNING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ORYZIAS LATIPES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 34247534579     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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