Effects of a short-term exposure to the fungicide prochloraz on endocrine function and gene expression in female fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 170-178

  Skolness, Sarah Y ^a,b   Durhan, Elizabeth J ^b   Garcia Reyero, Natalia ^c   Jensen, Kathleen M ^b   Kahl, Michael D ^b   Makynen, Elizabeth A ^b   Martinovic Weigelt, Dalma ^d   Perkins, Edward ^e   Villeneuve, Daniel L ^b   Ankley, Gerald T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^e US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen; Fish; Microarray; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450C17; ESTRADIOL; PROCHLORAZ; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; FUNGICIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION; PLASMA; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMIDAZOLES; OVARY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 79953256944     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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