The progestin levonorgestrel disrupts gonadotropin expression and sex steroid levels in pubertal roach (Rutilus rutilus)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-162

  Kroupova, H K ^a   Trubiroha, A ^b   Lorenz, C ^b   Contardo Jara, V ^b,c   Lutz, I ^b   Grabic, R ^a   Kocour, M ^a   Kloas, W ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androgen; Fish; Gonads; Oestrogen; Steroid receptors; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPIN; LEVONORGESTREL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

ANDROGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; TELEOST;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RUTILUS RUTILUS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TELEOST; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

ANDROGEN; FISH; GONADS; OESTROGEN; STEROID RECEPTORS; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMALS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, SYNTHETIC; CYPRINIDAE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPINS; LEVONORGESTREL; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84901631826     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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