Estrogen-responsive transient expression assay using a brain aromatase-based reporter gene in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 416-423

  Kim, Dong Jae ^a   Seok, Seung Hyeok ^a   Baek, Min Won ^a   Lee, Hui Young ^a   Na, Yi Rang ^a   Park, Sung Hoon ^a   Lee, Hyun Kyoung ^a   Dutta, Noton Kumar ^a   Kawakami, Koichi ^b   Park, Jae Hak ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEPTACHLOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SCREENING; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEPTACHLOR; INSECTICIDES; MALE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 70449794870     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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