Simultaneous determination of androgenic and estrogenic endpoints in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) using quantitative RT-PCR

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 269-276

  Hogan, Natacha S ^a   Wartman, Cheryl A ^a   Finley, Megan A ^a   van der Lee, Jennifer G ^a   van den Heuvel, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Androgen; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Real time PCR; Spiggin; Stickleback; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; RNA; SPIGGIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; HORMONE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; TELEOST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS; THREESPINE STICKLEBACK;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX FACTORS; SMEGMAMORPHA; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PISCES;

EID: 56349117553     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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