Endocrine disruption in the european eel, anguilla anguilla, exposed to an environmental cocaine concentration

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gay, Flaminia ^a   Maddaloni, Massimo ^a   Valiante, Salvatore ^a   Laforgia, Vincenza ^a   Capaldo, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anguilla anguilla; Cocaine and eel catecholamines; Cocaine and eel corticosteroids; Cocaine and eel thyroid hormones; Eel endocrine disruption

Indexed keywords

AMINES; BRAIN; CORTISOL; DRUG PRODUCTS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; LIFE CYCLE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; COCAINE AND EEL CATECHOLAMINES; COCAINE AND EEL CORTICOSTEROIDS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; THYROID HORMONES;

NOREPINEPHRINE;

ADRENALIN; ALDOSTERONE; COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; NORADRENALIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

BRAIN; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EEL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; PLASMA; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TOXICITY;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 84876778404     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1579-0     Document Type: Article

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