Vg mRNA induction in an endangered fish species (Anguilla anguilla) from the Loire estuary (France)

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 97, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-113

  Blanchet Letrouvé, Isabelle ^a   Lafont, Anne Gaëlle ^b   Poirier, Laurence ^a   Baloche, Sylvie ^b   Zalouk Vergnoux, Aurore ^a   Dufour, Sylvie ^b   Mouneyrac, Catherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; European eel; Q RT PCR; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOMARKER; EEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTUARY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; VG GENE;

BIOMARKERS; EUROPEAN EEL; Q RT PCR; VITELLOGENIN;

ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTUARIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LIVER; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL MATURATION; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FRANCE; LOIRE ATLANTIQUE; LOIRE ESTUARY; PAYS DE LA LOIRE;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 84884206304     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2013.07.019     Document Type: Article

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