Androgenic modulation of early growth of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) previtellogenic oocytes and zona radiata-related genes

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 72, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 184-195

  Kortner, Trond M ^a   Rocha, Eduardo ^b,c   Arukwe, Augustine ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ALCOHOL; ANDROGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN; 11-KETOTESTOSTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DRUG DERIVATIVE; EGG PROTEIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ZONA RADIATA PROTEIN, FISH;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; CELL CULTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA LIBRARY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MARINE SPECIES; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEREOLOGY; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OVARY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VITELLOGENESIS;

GADUS MORHUA; RADIATA;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EGG PROTEINS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; GADUS MORHUA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OOCYTES; OVARY; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 60749105733     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390802539020     Document Type: Article

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