Peering into molecular mechanisms of action with frogSCOPE

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 190-198

  Helbing, Caren C ^a   Maher, Stacey K ^a   Han, Jun ^b   Gunderson, Mark P ^a   Borchers, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibian; C fin assay; Endocrine disruption; Environmental contaminants; Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance; ITRAQ; Metabolomics; Proteomics; Quadrupole time of flight; Thyroid hormone; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; THYROID HORMONE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA MICROARRAY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FROG; IN VIVO STUDY; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TADPOLE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 77955310241     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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