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Article: Embryonic Treatment with Xenobiotics Disrupts Steroid Hormone Profiles in Hatchling Red-Eared Slider Turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans).
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
- Author:
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Many compounds in the environment capable of acting as endocrine disruptors have been assayed for their developmental effects on morphogenesis; however, few studies have addressed how such xenobiotics affect physiology. In the current study we examine the effects of three endocrine-disrupting compounds, chlordane, trans-nonachlor, and the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mixture Aroclor 1242, on the steroid hormone concentrations of red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) hatchlings treated in ovo. Basal steroid concentrations and steroid concentrations in response to follicle-stimulating hormone were examined in both male and female turtles treated with each of ...
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... ... turtles, 150 pounds of which were pulled from a trap on the second day of the blitz. One was a red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), a popular pet. The parks department battles some invaders. Huge tarpaulins had been placed along ...
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