Combined effects of high environmental ammonia, starvation and exercise on hormonal and ion-regulatory response in goldfish (Carassius auratus L.)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 114-115, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-164

  Sinha, Amit Kumar ^a   Liew, Hon Jung ^a,b   Diricx, Marjan ^a   Kumar, Vikas ^a   Darras, Veerle M ^c   Blust, Ronny ^a   De Boeck, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Cortisol; Exercise; Goldfish; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF I); Na + K + ATPase; Real time PCR; Starvation; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); AMMONIA; CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE ION; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE RECEPTOR; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; SODIUM ION; SOMATOMEDIN C; SURFACE WATER; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMMONIA; CYPRINID; EUTROPHICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE; METABOLISM; NUTRIENT; OSMOREGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STARVATION; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; EXHAUSTION; FOOD INTAKE; GILL; GOLDFISH; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE RESPONSE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STARVATION; STRESS; SWIMMING; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GILLS; GOLDFISH; HYDROCORTISONE; IONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; SWIMMING; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTORS BETA; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

CARASSIUS AURATUS; CYPRINIDAE;

EID: 84858723683     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2012.02.027     Document Type: Article

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