Subacute microcystin-LR exposure alters the metabolism of thyroid hormones in juvenile zebrafish (Danio Rerio)

Toxins

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 337-352

  Liu, Zidong ^a,b   Tang, Rong ^a,b   Li, Dapeng ^a,b,c   Hu, Qing ^a,b   Wang, Ying ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Histology; Iodothyronine deiodinases; Microcystin LR; Thyroid hormones; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; LIOTHYRONINE; MICROCYSTIN LR; PREALBUMIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; MICROCYSTIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; UPREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CYANOBACTERIUM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND;

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; CYANOBACTERIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MICROCYSTINS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84923195120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins7020337     Document Type: Article

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