The synthetic progestin levonorgestrel is a potent androgen in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2043-2051

  Svensson, Johan ^a   Fick, Jerker ^b   Brandt, Ingvar ^a   Brunström, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; ANDROGEN RECEPTORS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; IN-VIVO; LEVONORGESTREL; QUANTITATIVE DATA; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITIES; THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACKS; VITELLOGENIN;

TOXICITY; TRANSCRIPTION;

FISH;

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GESTAGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN; LEVONORGESTREL; VITELLOGENIN;

AMPHIBIAN; ANDROGEN; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMARKER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLLUTION EFFECT; TELEOST; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; KIDNEY; LEVONORGESTREL; MALE; SMEGMAMORPHA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874081567     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304305k     Document Type: Article

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