Chronic exposure to environmental levels of tribromophenol impairs zebrafish reproduction

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-95

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

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Reproduction; Sex hormones; Steroidogenic genes; Tribromophenol; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

2,4,6 TRIBROMOPHENOL; AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450 17; ESTRADIOL; FLAME RETARDANT; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; LARVAL STAGE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PHENOLS; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 75149194673     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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