Effects of prochloraz or propylthiouracil on the cross-talk between the HPG, HPA, and HPT axes in zebrafish

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 769-775

  Liu, Chunsheng ^a   Zhang, Xiaowei ^b   Deng, Jun ^a   Hecker, Markus ^d   Al Khedhairy, Abdulaziz ^e   Giesy, John P ^c   Zhou, Bingsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d ENTRIX INC   (United States)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN-REGULATION; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; MRNA EXPRESSION; PLASMA CONCENTRATION; TESTOSTERONE; ZEBRAFISH;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CROSSTALK;

GENE EXPRESSION;

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROCHLORAZ; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; CYPRINID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; SECRETION; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMIC PITUITARY THYROID AXIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; ZEBRA FISH;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMIDAZOLES; PITUITARY GLAND; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID GLAND; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 78651393745     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102659p     Document Type: Article

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