Sex- and tissue-specific effects of waterborne estrogen on estrogen receptor subtypes and E2-mediated gene expression in the reproductive axis of goldfish

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 92-101

  Marlatt, Vicki L ^a   Lakoff, Josh ^a   Crump, Kate ^a   Martyniuk, Chris J ^a   Watt, Jennifer ^a   Jewell, Linda ^a   Atkinson, Susanna ^a   Blais, Jules M ^a   Sherry, Jim ^b   Moon, Thomas W ^a   Trudeau, Vance L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estrogen receptors; Fish; Gene expression; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GOLDFISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REPRODUCTION;

CARASSIUS AURATUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 77549084273     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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