17α-Ethinyl estradiol affects anxiety and shoaling behavior in adult male zebra fish (Danio rerio)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 41-48

  Reyhanian, Nasim ^a,b   Volkova, Kristina ^a,b   Hallgren, Stefan ^a   Bollner, Tomas ^a   Olsson, Per Erik ^b   Olsén, Håkan ^a   Hadllstrm, Inger Porsch ^a  

^a School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavior; Endocrine disruption; Ethinyl estradiol; Shoaling; Zebra fish

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; VITELLOGENIN;

BRAIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FISH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPERM;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOALING BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SWIMMING; TESTIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AROMATASE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FERTILIZATION; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SWIMMING; TESTIS; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 79960336976     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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