Effects of 4-tert-octylphenol on Xenopus tropicalis in a long term exposure

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 159-169

  Porter, Karen L ^a   Olmstead, Allen W ^b   Kumsher, David M ^a   Dennis, William E ^a   Sprando, Robert L ^c   Holcombe, Gary W ^b   Korte, Joseph J ^b   Lindberg Livingston, Annelie ^b   Degitz, Sigmund J ^b  

^a US Army Center for Environmental Health Research   (United States)

^b National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogenic; Octylphenol; Oviducts; Vitellogenin; Xenopus tropicalis

Indexed keywords

4 TERT OCTYLPHENOL; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOACCUMULATION; BODY MASS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FROG; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; EMBRYO; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; PHENOLS; SEX RATIO; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TESTIS; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; CACOSTERNUM; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 79953261560     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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