Submissions tagged with xenoestrogens
(2 documents)
Independent elaboration of steroid hormone signaling pathways in Metazoans
Steroid hormones regulate many physiological processes in vertebrates, nematodes and arthropods through binding to nuclear receptors (NR), a metazoan-specific family of ligand-activated transcripti…
Received 25 June 2009 20:55 UTC; Posted 26 June 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Developmental Biology, Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment, Evolutionary Biology
Analysis of Endocrine Disruption in Southern California Coastal Fish using an Aquatic Multi-Species Microarray
BACKGROUND: Endocrine disruptors include plasticizers, pesticides, detergents and pharmaceuticals. Turbot and other flatfish are used to characterize the presence of chemicals in the marine envir…
Received 28 January 2009 02:08 UTC; Posted 02 February 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Earth & Environment