Challenges and opportunities with the use of biomarkers to predict reproductive impairment in fishes exposed to endocrine disrupting substances

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-16

  Bosker, Thijs ^a   Munkittrick, Kelly R ^a   MacLatchy, Deborah L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult reproductive test; Biomarkers; Data interpretation; Endocrine disruption; Fish; Mode mechanism of action

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOMARKER; DATA INTERPRETATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FISH; POPULATION SIZE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FISH; GONAD; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; STREAM (RIVER); TOXICITY TESTING; UNCERTAINTY; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GAMETOGENESIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

PISCES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; FISHES; GAMETOGENESIS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77957555851     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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