Use of TSHβ:EGFP transgenic zebrafish as a rapid in vivo model for assessing thyroid-disrupting chemicals

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-155

  Ji, Cheng ^a,b   Jin, Xia ^a   He, Jiangyan ^a   Yin, Zhan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Assessment model; Endocrine disrupting; Hypothalamic pituitary thyroid; Thyroid stimulating hormone subunit ; Transgenic reporter fish

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; DNA FRAGMENT; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVA; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TOXICOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PITUITARY GLAND; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT; TOXICITY TESTS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84862264966     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2012.04.029     Document Type: Article

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