The maturity index as a tool to facilitate the interpretation of changes in vitellogenin production and sex ratio in the Fish Sexual Development Test

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 128-129, Issue , 2013, Pages 34-42

  Baumann, Lisa ^a   Holbech, Henrik ^b   Keiter, Susanne ^a   Kinnberg, Karin Lund ^b   Knörr, Susanne ^a   Nagel, Tina ^a   Braunbeck, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Gonad histology; Gonad staging; Sexual differentiation; Vitellogenin; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

4 TERT PENTYLPHENOL; ANDROSTANOLONE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROCHLORAZ; TRENBOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

CORRELATION; CYPRINID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HISTOLOGY; OECD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT TEST; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATURITY INDEX; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADS; MALE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84871395882     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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