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Your Environment. Your Health.

Project Publications: Boston University: Endocrine Disrupting Effects in a Sentinel Species

Superfund Research Program

Endocrine Disrupting Effects in a Sentinel Species

Project Leader: Ian P. Callard
Grant Number: P42ES007381
Funding Period: 2000-2012

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Publications

2011

  • Marquez EC, Traylor-Knowles N, Novillo-Villajos A, Callard IP. 2011. Cloning of estrogen receptor alpha and aromatase cDNAs and gene expression in turtles (Chrysemys picta and Pseudemys scripta) exposed to different environments. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol 154(3):213-225. doi:10.1016/j.cbpc.2011.05.008 PMID:21664488
  • Marquez EC, Traylor-Knowles N, Novillo-Villajos A, Callard IP. 2011. Novel cDNA sequences of aryl hydrocarbon receptors and gene expression in turtles (Chrysemys picta and Pseudemys scripta) exposed to different environments. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol 154:305-317. doi:10.1016/j.cbpc.2011.06.017 PMID:21763458 PMCID:PMC3176672

2008

  • Kitana N, Callard IP. 2008. Effect of cadmium on gonadal development in freshwater turtle (Trachemys scripta, Chrysemys picta) embryos. J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng 43(3):262-271. doi:10.1080/10934520701792753 PMID:18205057
  • Lutton BV, Callard IP. 2008. Influence of reproductive activity, sex steroids, and seasonality on epigonal organ cellular proliferation in the skate (Leucoraja erinacea). Gen Comp Endocrinol 155(1):116-25. PMID:17499739

2007

  • Kitana N, Won S, Callard IP. 2007. Reproductive deficits in male freshwater turtle Chrysemys picta from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Biol Reprod 76(3):346-52. PMID:17123946
  • Lutton BV, Callard IP. 2007. Effects of reproductive activity and sex hormones on apoptosis in the epigonal organ of the skate (Leucoraja erinacea). Gen Comp Endocrinol 154(1-3):75-84. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.06.014 PMID:17714713

2006

  • Kitana N, Khonsue W, Won S, Lance VA, Callard IP. 2006. Gonadotropin and estrogen responses in freshwater turtle (Chrysemys picta) from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Gen Comp Endocrinol 149(1):49-57. PMID:16774753
  • Novillo A, Kitana N, Won S, Callard IP. 2006. Comparative environmental endocrinology, genomics and endocrine disruption. In: Proceedings of the 5th Intercongress Symposium of the Asia and Oceania Society for Comparative Endocrinology. Bangkok, Thailand. pp.77-82.
  • Puinean AM, Labadie P, Hill EM, Osada M, Kishida M, Novillo A, Callard IP, Rotchell JM. 2006. Laboratory exposure to 17beta-estradiol fails to induce vitellogenin and estrogen receptor gene expression in the marine invertebrate Mytilus edulis. Aquat Toxicol 79(4):376-383. doi:10.1016/j.aquatox.2006.07.006 PMID:16930737

2005

2004

  • Custodia-Lora N, Novillo A, Callard IP. 2004. Effect of gonadal steroids on progesterone receptor, estrogen receptor, and vitellogenin expression in male turtles (Chrysemys picta). J Exp Zool 301A(1):15-25. PMID:14695685
  • Custodia-Lora N, Novillo A, Callard IP. 2004. Regulation of hepatic progesterone and estrogen receptors in the female turtle, Chrysemys picta: relationship to vitellogenesis. Gen Comp Endocrinol 136(2):232-240. PMID:15028527

2003

  • Custodia-Lora N, Callard IP. 2003. Effects of gonadal steroids on progesterone receptor mRNA and progesterone receptor, estrogen receptor mRNA and vitellogenin mRNA and vitellogenin. Gen Comp Endocrinol

2002

  • Custodia-Lora N, Callard IP. 2002. Progesterone and progesterone receptors in reptiles. Gen Comp Endocrinol 127:1-7. PMID:12161195
  • Custodia-Lora N, Callard IP. 2002. Seasonal changes in hepatic progesterone receptor mRNA, estrogen receptor mRNA, and vitellogenin mRNA in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta. Gen Comp Endocrinol 128:193-204. PMID:12392693
  • Duggan AE, Marie RS, Callard IP. 2002. Expression of SR-BI (Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I) in turtle (Chrysemys picta) tissues and other nonmammalian vertebrates. J Exp Zool 292(5):430-434. PMID:11857477

2001

  • Custodia N, Won S, Novillo A, Wieland M, Li C, Callard IP. 2001. Caenorhabditis elegans as an environmental monitor using DNA microarray analysis. Ann N Y Acad Sci 948:32-42. PMID:11795393
  • Duggan AE, Paolucci M, Tercyak A, Gigliotti M, Small D, Callard IP. 2001. Seasonal variation in plasma lipids, lipoproteins, apolipoprotein A-I and vitellogenin in the freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta. Comp Biochem Physiol 130(2):253-269. PMID:11544071
  • Rie MT, Lendas KA, Callard IP. 2001. Cadmium: Tissue distribution and binding protein induction in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta. Comp Biochem Physiol 130(1):41-51. PMID:11544142

2000

  • Callard IP. 2000. C.elegans as a model for environmental change. In: Proceedings of "e. hormone 2000". New Orleans, LA.
  • Callard IP. 2000. Field and laboratory studies of endocrine disruption by heavy metals in wildlife species. In: Proceedings of the Gordon Research Conference on "Environmental Endocrine Disrupters".
  • Callard IP, Li C, Won S. 2000. Caenorhabditis elegans as a potential bioindicator species for xenobiotics. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on "Endocrine Disrupters in Food and Water: Possible impact on human health". Copenhagen, Denmark. pp.30.
  • Callard IP, Rie MT. 2000. Assessment of the effects of groundwater pollution on a sentinel species, Chrysemys picta, on Cape Cod: tissue contaminant levels and hepatic and reproductive bioindicators. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on "Endocrine Disrupters in Food and Water: Possible impact on human health". Copenhagen, Denmark. pp.29.
  • Custodia N, Callard IP. 2000. The turtle hepatic progesterone receptor: expression and potential role in the regulation of vitellogenin gene expression. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Endocrinology, 2000.
  • Custodia N, Won S, Novillo A, Li C, Callard IP. 2000. Potential use of cultured C. elegans as a test system for xenobiotics. In: Proceedings of the Superfund Basic Research Program Conference: "Oxidative Processes: Stress to Remediation". Chapel Hill, NC. pp.18.
  • Rie MT, Lendas KA, Woodin BR, Stegeman JJ, Callard IP. 2000. Hepatic biotransformation enzymes in a sentinel species, the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta), from Cape Cod, Massachusetts: seasonal-, sex- and location related differences. Biomarkers 5(5):382-394. doi:10.1080/135475000424384 PMID:23886024
  • Rie MT, Lendas KA, Woodin BR, Stegeman JJ, Callard IP. 2000. Multiple bioindicators of environmental pollution in a sentinel species, Chrysemys picta, on Cape Cod,MA. Mar Environ Res 50(1):436-437.
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