Effects of 17α-ethinylestradiol and bisphenol A on steroidogenic messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the rare minnow gonads

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 122-123, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-27

  Liu, Shaozhen ^a   Qin, Fang ^a   Wang, Houpeng ^a   Wu, Tingting ^a   Zhang, Yingying ^a   Zheng, Yao ^a   Li, Meng ^a   Wang, Zaizhao ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

17 Ethinylestradiol; Bisphenol A; Gobiocypris rarus; Quantitative real time PCR; Steroidogenic genes

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 17A1; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENZYME; GENE EXPRESSION; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ADULT ANIMAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINIFORMES; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME SIZE; GOBIOCYPRIS RARUS; GONAD; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; METABOLIC INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOM AMPLIFICATION OF COMPLEMENTARY DNA END; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEROIDOGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOLS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CYPRINIDAE; GOBIOCYPRIS RARUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 84862157252     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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