Exposure to the pesticide linuron affects androgen-dependent gene expression in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1391-1395

  Hogan, Natacha S ^a   Gallant, Melanie J ^a   van den Heuvel, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antiandrogen; Endocrine disruption; Spiggin; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTORS; ANDROGEN-DEPENDENT; ANDROGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTI-ANDROGENIC; ANTIANDROGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; ISOFORMS; LINURON; METHYL-TESTOSTERONE; MRNA LEVEL; SCREENING TOOL; SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE; SPIGGIN; THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK; TRANSCRIPT LEVEL;

GENE EXPRESSION; RNA;

PESTICIDES;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; LINURON; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; PRIMER RNA; SPIGGIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROGEN; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESEARCH WORK; TELEOST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; KIDNEY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HERBICIDES; KIDNEY; LINURON; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SMEGMAMORPHA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 84861226261     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1815     Document Type: Article

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