Cytogenetic toxicity and gonadal effects of 17 α-methyltestosterone in Astyanax bimaculatus (Characidae) and Oreochromis niloticus (Cichlidae)

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3862-3870

  Rivero Wendt, C L G ^a   Miranda Vilela, A L ^a   Ferreira, M F N ^a   Borges, A M ^a   Grisolia, C K ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

17 Methyltestosterone; Comet assay; Endocrine disruptor; Fish micronucleus; Histopathology

Indexed keywords

METHYLTESTOSTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTYANAX BIMACULATUS; BRAZIL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHARACIDAE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETIC TOXICITY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; GONAD; GONADAL EFFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHARACIDAE; CICHLIDS; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84884573299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/2013.September.23.4     Document Type: Article

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