The herbicide atrazine activates endocrine gene networks via non-steroidal NR5A nuclear receptors in fish and mammalian cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Suzawa, Miyuki ^a,b   Ingraham, Holly A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AROMATASE; ATRAZINE; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; ESTROGEN; FOLLISTATIN RELATED PROTEIN; HERBICIDE; INHIBIN A; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SF 1; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; CELL RECEPTOR; HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; SEX RATIO;

AMPHIBIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HERBICIDES; HORMONES; MALE; MAMMALS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, STEROID; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 47749146539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002117     Document Type: Article

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