Endocrine disruptive potential of endosulfan on the reproductive axis of Cichlasoma dimerus (Perciformes, Cichlidae)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 126, Issue , 2013, Pages 299-305

  Da Cuña, Rodrigo H ^a,b   Pandolfi, Matias ^a,b   Genovese, Griselda ^a,b   Piazza, Yanina ^a   Ansaldo, Martín ^c   Lo Nostro, Fabiana L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cichlid fish; Endocrine disruption; Endosulfan; Gonadotropins; Sex steroids; Testes pathology

Indexed keywords

ENDOSULFAN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENDOSULFAN; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANOCHLORINE; PERCIFORM; PESTICIDE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CICHLASOMA DIMERUS; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOAM CELL; GERM CELL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOPHYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CICHLIDS; ENDOSULFAN; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; MALE; OVARY; PITUITARY GLAND; TESTIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CICHLASOMA; CICHLIDAE; PERCIFORMES;

EID: 84871736216     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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