Anchoring Ethinylestradiol Induced Gene Expression Changes with Testicular Morphology and Reproductive Function in the Medaka

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Miller, Hilary D ^a   Clark, Bryan W ^a   Hinton, David E ^a   Whitehead, Andrew ^b   Martin, Stan ^c   Kwok, Kevin W ^a   Kullman, Seth W ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM LAYER; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE RESPONSE; INTERSTITIUM; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; TESTICULAR MORPHOLOGY; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORYZIAS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ORYZIINAE;

EID: 84871564817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052479     Document Type: Article

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