Aqueous leaf extracts display endocrine activities in vitro and disrupt sexual differentiation of male Xenopus laevis tadpoles in vivo

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-255

  Hermelink, Björn ^a   Urbatzka, Ralph ^a,b   Wiegand, Claudia ^a   Pflugmacher, Stephan ^a   Lutz, Ilka ^a   Kloas, Werner ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aqueous leaf extracts; Development; Endocrine disruption; Sexual differentiation; Thyroid system; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; ORGANIC CARBON; SURFACE WATER;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BEECH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SELECTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OAK; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TADPOLE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; THYROID GLAND; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77955337829     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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