Effects of Environmental Estrogens and Antiandrogens on Endocrine Function, Gene Regulation, and Health in Fish

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue , 2008, Pages 207-252

  Rempel, Mary Ann ^a   Schlenk, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiandrogen; Endocrine disruption; Endocrine function; Environmental; Estrogen; Fish

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYTAMOXIFEN; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIANDROGEN; COUMESTEROL; DAIDZEIN; DIETHYLESTILBESTEROL; EQUOL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL GLUCORONIDE; ESTRADIOL SULFATE; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FORMONONETIN; FULVESTRANT; GENISTEIN; MESTRANOL; METHOXYCHLOR; NONYLPHENOL; STEROID RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN; TERT OCTOPHENOL; THYROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZEARLENONE; ANDROGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL HEALTH; DNA DAMAGE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENT; FISH; GENE CONTROL; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEX TRANSFORMATION; STEROID METABOLISM; STEROIDOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GONAD; HEALTH; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; REPRODUCTION;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTROGENS; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADS; GROWTH HORMONE; HEALTH; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REPRODUCTION; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 48949105760     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1937-6448(08)00605-9     Document Type: Review

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