Triclosan has endocrine-disrupting effects in male western mosquitofish, gambusia affinis

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1287-1291

  Rauty, Samiksha A ^a,b   Angus, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b DALTON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibacterials; Endocrine disruption; Fish; Sperm count; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT; ANTIBACTERIALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HEPATOSOMATIC INDICES; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT; PERSONAL CARE; TREATMENT GROUP; TRICLOSAN; VITELLOGENIN; VITELLOGENIN MRNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOMARKERS; EFFLUENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; SPEED CONTROL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRICLOSAN; VITELLOGENIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BIOMARKER; CYPRINID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPERM; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; EFFLUENT; EXPOSURE; FISH; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FISHES; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRICLOSAN; VITELLOGENINS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GAMBUSIA AFFINIS;

EID: 77953560018     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.150     Document Type: Article

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