Experimentally nonylphenol-polluted diet induces the expression of silent genes VTG and ERα in the liver of male lizard Podarcis sicula

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1101-1107

  Verderame, Mariailaria ^a   Prisco, Marina ^a   Andreuccetti, Piero ^a   Aniello, Francesco ^a   Limatola, Ermelinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptors ; Lizard; Nonylphenol pollution; Reptiles; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LIZARD; NONYLPHENOL POLLUTION; REPTILES; VITELLOGENIN;

GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER; NUTRITION; PHENOLS;

WATER POLLUTION;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; NONYLPHENOL; VITELLOGENIN;

DIET; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; LIZARD; PHENOL; PLASMA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER POLLUTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER; LIZARDS; MALE; PHENOLS; VITELLOGENINS;

PODARCIS; PODARCIS SICULA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953783234     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.02.017     Document Type: Article

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