Endpoint sensitivity in fish endocrine disruption assays: Regulatory implications

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-46

  Dang, ZhiChao ^a   Li, Kang ^b   Yin, HaoWen ^b   Hakkert, Betty ^a   Vermeire, Theo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Endocrine disrupter; Integrated testing strategy (ITS); Risk assessment; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONAD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FISHES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DANIO RERIO; ORYZIINAE; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 79952040326     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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