A chemical screening procedure for glucocorticoid signaling with a zebrafish larva luciferase reporter system

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 79, 2013, Pages

  Weger, Benjamin D ^a   Weger, Meltem ^a   Jung, Nicole ^a   Lederer, Christin ^a   Bräse, Stefan ^a,b   Dickmeis, Thomas ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

And hormone antagonists; Animal biology; Animal model; Animal models; Biochemistry; Bioengineering (general); Chemical screening; Danio rerio; Developmental biology; Environmental effects (biological and animal); Genetics (animal); Glucocorticoid; High throughput screening; Hormone substitutes; Hormones; In vivo; Issue 79; Life sciences; Luciferase; Receiver operating characteristic curve; Stress; Vertebrates; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884198174     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50439     Document Type: Article

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