Impacts of molt-inhibiting organochlorine compounds on epidermal ecdysteroid signaling in the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator, in vitro

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 436-441

  Meng, Yanling ^a   Zou, Enmin ^a  

^a NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustacean; Endocrine Disruption; Molting; N acetyl glucosaminidase; Organochlorine; Uca pugilator

Indexed keywords

2,4,5 TRICHLOROBIPHENYL; AROCLOR 1242; CHLORDECONE; ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; ENDOSULFAN; HEPTACHLOR; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ENZYME INDUCTION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPOPHILICITY; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UCA PUGILATOR;

ANIMALIA; CELUCA PUGILATOR; CRUSTACEA; OCYPODIDAE;

EID: 70149111050     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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