Effects of estrogens and estrogenic disrupting compounds on fish mineralized tissues

Marine Drugs

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4474-4494

  Pinto, Patricia I S ^a   Estêvão, Maria D ^a   Power, Deborah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupting compounds; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen receptor; Fish; Mineralized tissues

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA A ISOFORM; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA B ISOFORM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOPROTEIN; MINERAL;

ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGENIC ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; FISH MINERALIZED TISSUE; HOMEOSTASIS; MINERAL HOMEOSTASIS; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCLAST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; FISH; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS; FISHES; HUMANS; MINERALS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84908052260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md12084474     Document Type: Review

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