Effects of the wood extractives dehydroabietic acid and betulinol on reproductive physiology of zebrafish (Danio rerio)-A two-generation study

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 388-396

  Christianson Heiska, Inga Lisa ^a   Haavisto, Tapio ^b   Paranko, Jorma ^b   Bergelin, Eija ^a   Isomaa, Boris ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Betulinol; Dehydroabietic acid; Gonad histology; Reproduction; Sex steroid; Vitellogenin; Wood extractive; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

BETULIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DEHYDROABIETIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

CYPRINID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GROWTH; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION; WOOD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; EGG; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PAPER INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULP PROCESSING; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPAWNING; SPERMATOCYTE; WASTE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; WOOD; WOOD PULP; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY SIZE; DITERPENES, ABIETANE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATIDS; TESTOSTERONE; TRITERPENES; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 39149108458     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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