Short-term exposure to the environmentally relevant estrogenic mycotoxin zearalenone impairs reproduction in fish

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 326-333

  Schwartz, Patrick ^a   Thorpe, Karen L ^a   Bucheli, Thomas D ^b   Wettstein, Felix E ^b   Burkhardt Holm, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Egg production; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen; Fusarium; Resorcyclic acid lactones; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ESTROGEN; FUSARIUM; RESORCYCLIC ACID LACTONES; ZEBRAFISH;

ACIDS; MORPHOLOGY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL;

EFFLUENTS;

ESTRADIOL; VITELLOGENIN; ZEARALENONE;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FECUNDITY; FISH; POLLUTION EFFECT; SPAWNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONAD; HATCHING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; REPRODUCTION; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEARALENONE; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; FUSARIUM;

EID: 78649749117     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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