Biosensor zebrafish provide new insights into potential health effects of environmental estrogens

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 990-996

  Lee, Okhyun ^a   Takesono, Aya ^a   Tada, Masazumi ^b   Tyler, Charles R ^a   Kudoh, Tetsuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosensor; EDCs; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; ER; Estrogen receptor; Gal4; UAS; Upstream activation sequence

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EXPOSURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE REACTION; TOXICOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864137541     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104433     Document Type: Article

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