Effects on reproductive potential and endocrine status in the mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) after exposure to 17α-ethynylestradiol in a short-term reproductive bioassay

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 154-166

  Peters, Rebecca E M ^a   Courtenay, Simon C ^b   Cagampan, Steve ^c   Hewitt, Mark L ^c   MacLatchy, Deborah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Ethynylestradiol; Fundulus heteroclitus; Reproduction; Reproductive steroids; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN; WATER;

BIOASSAY; CYPRINID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); HORMONE; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SAMPLING; SEX HORMONE; SPAWNING; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL TERATOGENESIS; EGG PRODUCTION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FISH; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TERATOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY SIZE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTRADIOL; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FUNDULIDAE; LIVER; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEAWATER; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS;

EID: 34848822482     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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