Screening estrogenic activity of environmental contaminants and water samples using a transgenic medaka embryo bioassay

Chemosphere

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 945-952

  Lee, Wenjau ^a   Kang, Chi Wei ^a   Su, Chung Kai ^a   Okubo, Kataaki ^b   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^c  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Environment; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Medaka; Transgenic; Xenoestrogen

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; PHENOLS; TRANSCRIPTION; WATER RESOURCES;

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MEDAKA; TRANSGENICS; XENOESTROGEN;

SCREENING;

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NONYLPHENOL; RIVER WATER;

BIOASSAY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GROWTH RESPONSE; HORMONE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; REAL TIME; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RIVER WATER; TELEOST; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE;

EID: 84861931172     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.03.024     Document Type: Article

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