The Establishment and Application of an in Vivo Screening Method of Environmental Estrogens Using Caenorhabditis Elegans Strain RT130as a Model Organism
Environmental estrogens are exogenous chemicals which can interfere with themetabolism of hormones, thus affecting growth, development, reproduction and otherphysiological functions. Reproduction distortion, reproductive abnormalities andreduced sperm count caused by environmental estrogens had attracted wide attentionaround the world since1996. Caenorhabditis elegans is an internationally recognizedmodel organism and has been widely used in environmental toxicology, since it iseasy to train and exerts stro...