Detection of the anti-androgenic effect of endocrine disrupting environmental contaminants using in vivo and in vitro assays in the three-spined stickleback

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 228-239

  Jolly, Cécile ^a,b   Katsiadaki, Ioanna ^c   Morris, Steve ^c   Le Belle, Nadine ^b   Dufour, Sylvie ^b   Mayer, Ian ^a   Pottinger, Tom G ^d   Scott, Alexander P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti androgen; Cell culture; In vitro; In vivo; Spiggin; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANTIANDROGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; FENITROTHION; FLUTAMIDE; HERBICIDE; LINURON; NONYLPHENOL; VINCLOZOLIN;

ALCOHOL; ANDROGEN; AQUARIUM; BIOASSAY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INHIBITION; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTEIN; STEROID; TELEOST; UREA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEOST;

ADRENERGIC ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; FRESH WATER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; SMEGMAMORPHA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 67349247670     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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