In vitro steroidogenic effects of mixtures of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) extracted from burbot (Lota lota) caught in two Norwegian lakes

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2040-2048

  Zimmer, Karin E ^a   Montaño, Mauricio ^b   Olsaker, Ingrid ^a   Dahl, Ellen ^a   Berg, Vidar ^a   Karlsson, Camilla ^a   Murk, Albertinka J ^c   Skaare, Janneche U ^a,d   Ropstad, Erik ^a   Verhaegen, Steven ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

BFR; DDT; H295R; Hormone; Mixture; PCB; Pollutant; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

BFR; DDT; H295R; PCB; POLLUTANT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

CELL CULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT; FLAME RETARDANTS; GENES; ISOMERS; LAKES; MIXTURES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

BROMINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORDANE; ESTRADIOL; FLAME RETARDANT; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID HORMONE;

DDT; FISH; HORMONE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; POLLUTION EFFECT; RNA; TESTOSTERONE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BURBOT; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRAIN H295R; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FISH; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DDT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; FRESH WATER; GADIFORMES; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; NORWAY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

NORWAY;

LOTA; LOTA LOTA;

EID: 79953328049     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.01.055     Document Type: Article

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