Availability of In Vitro Vitellogenin Assay for Screening of Estrogenic and Anti-Estrogenic Activities of Environmental Chemicals

Iguchi, Taisen; Irie, Fumi; Urushitani, Hiroshi; Tooi, Osamu; Kawashima, Yukio; Roberts, Mike; Norrgren, Leif; Hutchinson, Thomas H

Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2006

Availability of In Vitro Vitellogenin Assay for Screening of Estrogenic and Anti-Estrogenic Activities of Environmental Chemicals

Iguchi, Taisen; Irie, Fumi; Urushitani, Hiroshi; Tooi, Osamu; Kawashima, Yukio; Roberts, Mike; Norrgren, Leif; Hutchinson, Thomas H

Abstract

Vitellogenin (VTG) protein, VTG mRNA, other egg yolk proteins, vitelline envelope proteins and their mRNAs are produced in the liver of oviparous species by stimulation of endogenous estrogen and exogenous estrogenic chemicals

Keywords

vitellogenin; hepatocyte culture; fish; amphibian; avian

Published in

Environmental Sciences -Netherlands-
2006, volume: 13, number: 3, pages: 161-183
Publisher: MYU Tokyo

Authors' information

Norrgren, Leif

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Biomedical Science and Veterinary Public Health

Hutchinson, Thomas H.

Iguchi, Taisen

Irie, Fumi

Kawashima, Yukio

Roberts, Mike

Tooi, Osamu

Urushitani, Hiroshi

UKÄ Subject classification

Veterinary Science
Animal and Dairy Science

URI (permanent link to this page)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/9326