Thyroid Endocrine Disruption of Propylparaben Assessed Using an Optimized Individual Xenopus tropicalis Metamorphosing Tadpole Exposure System

The anuran Xenopus tropicalis tadpole is an attractive model animal in toxicological evaluation of suspected thyroid disrupting xenobiotics. Due to its reliance of a functioning hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis for normal metamorphosis, effects on the HPT axis produces apical endpoints, whi...

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Main Author: Pohl, Johannes
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning 2015
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-267976