Mate calling behavior of male South African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) is suppressed by the antiandrogenic endocrine disrupting compound flutamide

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 269-274

  Behrends, Thomas ^a,b   Urbatzka, Ralph ^c   Krackow, Sven ^a   Elepfandt, Andreas ^a   Kloas, Werner ^a,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiandrogens; Behavior; Endocrine disrupting compounds; Flutamide; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIANDROGEN; AROMATASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 1; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 2; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77955315051     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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