Early expression of zona pellucida proteins under octylphenol exposure in Cichlasoma dimerus (Perciformes, Cichlidae)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 175-185

  Genovese, Griselda ^a,b,c   Da Cuña, Rodrigo ^a,b   Towle, David W ^c   Maggese, María C ^a,b   Lo Nostro, Fabiana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; Cichlid fish; Gene expression; Octylphenol; Vitellogenin; Zona pellucida proteins

Indexed keywords

ALKYLPHENOL; CELL PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; OCTYLPHENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN; ZONA PELLUCIDA PROTEIN B; ZONA PELLUCIDA PROTEIN C;

CICHLID; DNA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CICHLASOMA DIMERUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERCIFORMES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CICHLIDS; EGG PROTEINS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIVER; MALE; PHENOLS; VITELLOGENINS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

CICHLASOMA; CICHLIDAE; PERCIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 78649909120     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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