Endocrine and developmental effects in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) exposed to perfluorooctane sulfonic or perfluorooctane carboxylic acids

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 108, Issue , 2012, Pages 112-124

  Spachmo, Bård ^a   Arukwe, Augustine ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Emerging compounds; Estrogen receptors; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factors; Ossification; Thyroid signalling

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GROWTH HORMONE; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR ALPHA; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; THYROXINE 5 DEIODINASE;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; LARVA; PERTURBATION; SALMONID; STEROID;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; LARVA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHONDROGENESIS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FLUOROCARBONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OCTANOIC ACIDS; OSTEOGENESIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SALMO SALAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 84855992718     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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