Assessment of the sensitivity of three North American fish species to disruptors of steroidogenesis using in vitro tissue explants

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 273-283

  Beitel, Shawn C ^a   Doering, Jon A ^a   Patterson, Sarah E ^a   Hecker, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b University of Saskatchewan   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupting chemical; Northern pike; Walleye; White sucker

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; FORSKOLIN; PROCHLORAZ;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FISH; HORMONE; IMMUNOASSAY; PLASMA; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; STEROID; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CATOSTOMUS COMMERONI; CELL LINE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESOX LUCIUS; EXPLANT; FEMALE; FISH; GONAD; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANDER VITREUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICAL; NORTHERN PIKE; WALLEYE; WHITE SUCKER;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; SEASONS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84899843303     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.04.013     Document Type: Article

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