Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) with (anti)estrogenic and (anti)androgenic modes of action affecting reproductive biology of Xenopus laevis: II. Effects on gonad histomorphology

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 241-251

  Cevasco, Alessandra ^a   Urbatzka, Ralph ^b   Bottero, Sergio ^a   Massari, Alessandra ^a   Pedemonte, Federico ^a   Kloas, Werner ^b,c   Mandich, Alberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Gonad morphology; Lambro river; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; METHANDRIOL; RIVER WATER; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ITALY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RIVER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM; TESTIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 37349074356     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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