Detection of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in herring gull (Larus argentatus) brains: Effects on mRNA expression in cultured neuronal cells

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 7715-7721

  Crump, Doug ^a   Jagla, Magdalena M ^a   Kehoe, Amy ^a   Kennedy, Sean W ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ETHERS; FLAME RETARDANTS; HORMONES; LAKE POLLUTION; MARINE RISERS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; GENES; NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BRAIN SAMPLES; IN VITRO; MODEL SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR BIOMARKERS; MRNA EXPRESSIONS; MRNA LEVELS; NEURONAL CELL CULTURES; NEURONAL CELLS; NEURONAL NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS; PCR ASSAYS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTORS; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSTHYRETIN; WIDESPREAD USES;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; PREALBUMIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR ALPHA; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA;

BIOMARKER; BRAIN; DETECTION METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; PBDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; RNA; SEABIRD; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CYTOTOXICITY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HERRING; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHARADRIIFORMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEURONS; PHENYL ETHERS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; PREALBUMIN; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

LARUS ARGENTATUS;

BRAIN SAMPLE; DOWN-REGULATION; IN-VITRO; MODEL SYSTEM; MOLECULAR BIOMARKER; MRNA EXPRESSION; MRNA LEVEL; NEURONAL CELL; NEURONAL CELL CULTURE; NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); REAL TIME RT-PCR; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSTHYRETIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 54349117690     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801145j     Document Type: Article

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