Zebrafish eleutheroembryos provide a suitable vertebrate model for screening chemicals that impair thyroid hormone synthesis

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7525-7532

  Thienpont, Benedicte ^a   Tingaud Sequeira, Angèle ^b   Prats, Eva ^c   Barata, Carlos ^a   Babin, Patrick J ^b   Raldúa, Demetrio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS; ETHYLENETHIOUREA; GENISTEIN; HUMAN RISK ASSESSMENT; MANCOZEB; METHIMAZOLE; PHLOROGLUCINOL; POTASSIUM PERCHLORATE; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; PYRAZOLES; SCREENING ASSAYS; SODIUM BROMIDE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; THYROID GLANDS; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVELS; VERTEBRATE MODEL; ZEBRAFISH;

BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; MAMMALS; PHENOLS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TRANSCRIPTION;

INDICATORS (CHEMICAL);

2 IMIDAZOLIDINETHIONE; AMITROLE; GENISTEIN; MANCOZEB; PHLOROGLUCINOL; POTASSIUM PERCHLORATE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PYRAZOLE; RESORCINOL; SIVIFENE; SODIUM BROMIDE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; THIAMAZOLE; THIOCYANATE POTASSIUM; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CYPRINID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEALTH RISK; HORMONE; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEUTHEROEMBRYO; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PROCESS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; THYROXINE IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE QUANTITATIVE DISRUPTION TEST; THYROXINE SYNTHESIS; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHILD; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IODIDES; METHIMAZOLE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PERCHLORIC ACID; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PREGNANCY; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052206831     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202248h     Document Type: Article

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