Multiple cytokine and acute-phase protein gene transcription in West Greenland sledge dogs (Canis familiaris) dietary exposed to organic environmental pollutants

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 110-118

  Sonne, C ^a   Fonfara, S ^b   Dietz, R ^a   Kirkegaard, M ^a   Letcher, R J ^c   Shahmiri, S ^c   Andersen, S ^d   Moller P ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; EDETIC ACID; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BIOMARKER; CANID; DDT; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTOXICITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; WHALE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTOXICITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WHALE;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOKINES; DIET; DOGS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIVER; MERCURY; MINKE WHALE; PHENYL ETHERS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CETACEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34249815823     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0135-y     Document Type: Article

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