A novel combined approach to detect androgenic activities with yeast based assays in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 410-415

  Wolf, Sylvi ^a   Rataj, Felicitas ^a   Zierau, Oliver ^a   Ostermann, Kai ^a   Diel, Patrick ^b   Parr, Maria Kristina ^b   Vollmer, Günter ^a   Rödel, Gerhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androgens; Anti androgens; Doping; EGFP reporter; S. cerevisiae; S. pombe

Indexed keywords

6 (1,1 DIMETHYLALLYL)NARINGENIN; 8 PRENYLNARINGENIN; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BICALUTAMIDE; BOLDENONE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FLUTAMIDE; MESTEROLONE; METANDIENONE; METENOLONE; NANDROLONE; NILUTAMIDE; OXANDROLONE; STANOZOLOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DOPING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCREENING TEST; URINE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANDROGENS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

BOS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 78650513950     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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