Endocrine disruption and reproductive impairment in zebrafish by exposure to 8:2 fluorotelomer alcohol

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-76

  Liu, Chunsheng ^a,b   Deng, Jun ^a   Yu, Liqin ^a   Ramesh, Mathan ^c   Zhou, Bingsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Fluorotelomer alcohols; Gamatogenesis; Gene transcription; Reproductive toxicity; Sex hormone

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; CELL PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; FLUOROTELOMER ALCOHOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN; ZONA PELLUCIDA PROTEIN 2;

ALCOHOL; CYPRINID; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FECUNDITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HATCHING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; HATCHING; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAWNING; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OOCYTES; PITUITARY GLAND; REPRODUCTION; SPERM MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 74149090921     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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