Dietary intake of 17α-ethinylestradiol promotes leukocytes infiltration in the gonad of the hermaphrodite gilthead seabream

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 2079-2086

  Cabas, Isabel ^a   Chaves Pozo, Elena ^b   Alcázar, Alicia García ^b   Meseguer, José ^a   Mulero, Victoriano ^a   García Ayala, Alfonsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Fish; Hermaphroditism; Leukocytes; Reproductive immunology

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN T; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOSE RESPONSE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GILTHEAD SEABREAM; GONAD; GRANULOCYTE; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELEOST; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; DIET; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; GENE EXPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA BREAM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; SPARUS AURATA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 80051952264     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: 18729142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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