A noninvasive test of exposition to toxicants: Quantitative analysis of cytochrome P4501A expression in fish scales

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2179-2186

  Quirós, Laia ^a   Raldúa, Demetrio ^b   Navarro, Anna ^a   Casado, Marta ^a   Barceló, Damià ^c   Piña, Benjamin ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor; Environmental biomonitoring; Fish ecotoxicology; Genetic biomarkers; Quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL BIOMONITORING; GENETIC BIOMARKERS; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTIONS;

FISH;

BETA NAPHTHOFLAVONE; CYTOCHROME P450 1A; MESSENGER RNA;

BIOMARKER; BIOMONITORING; CYTOCHROME; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HYDROCARBON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; FOOD SAFETY; GOLDFISH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-NAPHTHOFLAVONE; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ENZYME INDUCTION; GOLDFISH; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SKIN;

ANIMALIA; CARASSIUS AURATUS;

EID: 35348898335     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-027R.1     Document Type: Article

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