Development of a transient expression assay for detecting environmental oestrogens in zebrafish and medaka embryos

BMC Biotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lee, Okhyun ^a   Tyler, Charles R ^a   Kudoh, Tetsuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Oestrogen response elements; Oestrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals; Transient expression assay; UAS GAL4; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS; OESTROGEN RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; UAS-GAL4; ZEBRAFISH;

FISH; INSTRUMENTS; PHENOLS; TISSUE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NONYLPHENOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEART; LIVER; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMITE; TARGET ORGAN; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; TRANSPOSON; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLASMID; POLLUTANT;

DANIO RERIO; ORYZIINAE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORYZIAS; PHENOLS; PLASMIDS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84862581039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-12-32     Document Type: Article

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