Zebrafish eleutheroembryos as an alternative system for screening chemicals disrupting the mammalian thyroid gland morphogenesis and function

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 188-197

  Raldúa, Demetrio ^a   Thienpont, Benedicte ^a   Babin, Patrick J ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Alternative model; Endocrine disruption; Goitrogens; Screening; Thyroid follicles; Zebrafish eleutheroembryos

Indexed keywords

3,3',5' TRIIODOTHYRONINE; CARBIMAZOLE; CLOFIBRIC ACID; DIIODOTYROSINE; FLAVONOID; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; IODIDE; IODOTYROSINE; LEVOTHYROXINE; MESSENGER RNA; PERCHLORIC ACID; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PROTIRELIN; SULFOTRANSFERASE; THIAMAZOLE; THIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE DEIODINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXE1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2 ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DISEASE MODEL; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG SCREENING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELEUTHEROEMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN VIVO STUDY; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIMORDIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID DYSGENESIS; THYROID FOLLICLE; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONE METABOLISM; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAIN; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HUMANS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858443075     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2011.09.001     Document Type: Review

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