Measuring multiple hormones from a single water sample using enzyme immunoassays

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 277-285

  Kidd, Celeste E ^a   Kidd, Michael R ^a   Hofmann, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

11 Ketotestosterone; 17 Estradiol; Astatotilapia burtoni; Cichlid; EIA; Environmental toxicology; Enzyme immunoassay; Invertebrate; Progesterone; Prostaglandin F2 ; Steroid; Teleost; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELUTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FISH SCHOOL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCTION; STRESS; TELEOST; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 71549148344     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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