Endocrine modulating actions of a phytosterol mixture and its oxidation products in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 518-527

  Christianson Heiska, Inga ^a   Smeds, Pia ^a   Granholm, Nina ^a   Bergelin, Eija ^a   Isomaa, Boris ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gonad histology; Oxidized phytosterol; Phytosterol; Sex steroid; Vitellogenin; Zebrafish; sitosterol

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESTRADIOL; PHYTOSTEROL; SITOSTEROL; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE; ULTRASITOSTEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GONAD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FUNCTION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 34247538408     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2007.01.016     Document Type: Article

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