Thyroid hormone-dependent development in Xenopus laevis: A sensitive screen of thyroid hormone signaling disruption by municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 481-492

  Searcy, Brian T ^a   Beckstrom Sternberg, Stephen M ^a,b   Beckstrom Sternberg, James S ^b   Stafford, Phillip ^c   Schwendiman, Angela L ^a   Soto Pena, Jenifer ^a   Owen, Michael C ^a   Ramirez, Claire ^a   Phillips, Joel ^a   Veldhoen, Nik ^d   Helbing, Caren C ^d   Propper, Catherine R ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Endocrine disruption; Frog; Microarray; Thyroid hormone; Wastewater effluent; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; SEPRASE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; THYROXINE DEIODINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA MICROARRAY; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TADPOLE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84859897510     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.12.036     Document Type: Article

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