Phenylthiourea specifically reduces zebrafish eye size

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Li, Zeran ^a,b   Ptak, Devon ^a   Zhang, Liyun ^a   Walls, Elwood K ^a,c   Zhong, Wenxuan ^d   Leung, Yuk Fai ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER; SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER INHIBITOR; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROID PEROXIDASE INHIBITOR; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL COUNT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EYE DIMENSION; FERTILIZATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; LARVA; LENS; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; RETINA CELL; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; EYE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENYLTHIOUREA; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84862988644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040132     Document Type: Article

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