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1963
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Overview

Olivier Kah is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Physiology, Genetics, and Immunology as subfields within this domain.

Their work covers several key topics:

  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Animal Genetics and Reproduction
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies

Kah has published extensively in recognized scientific journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Aquatic Toxicology
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Chemosphere

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Olivier Kah are:

  • "Effects of diclofenac on sentinel species and aquatic communities in semi-natural conditions," 2021, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • "Interest of a multispecies approach in active biomonitoring: Application in the Meuse watershed," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Water quality of the Meuse watershed: Assessment using a multi-biomarker approach with caged three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)," 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • "Refinement of an OECD test guideline for evaluating the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on aromatase gene expression and reproduction using novel transgenic cyp19a1a-eGFP zebrafish," 2020, Aquatic Toxicology
  • "Integrated multi-biomarker responses of juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) to an environmentally relevant pharmaceutical mixture," 2021, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues including Jean-Marc Porcher, Cyril Turiès, Anne Bado-Nilles, Rémy Beaudouin, and Audrey Catteau. These partnerships have resulted in multiple joint publications across their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Neuroendocrinology of reproduction in teleost fish.

    Yonathan Zohar;José Antonio Muñoz-Cueto;Abigail Elizur;Olivier Kah

  • Endocrine disrupters: a review of some sources, effects, and mechanisms of actions on behaviour and neuroendocrine systems

    C A Frye;E Bo;G Calamandrei;L Calzà

  • Molecular Characterization of Three Estrogen Receptor Forms in Zebrafish: Binding Characteristics, Transactivation Properties, and Tissue Distributions

    Arnaud Menuet;Elisabeth Pellegrini;Isabelle Anglade;Odile Blaise

  • Interference of endocrine disrupting chemicals with aromatase CYP19 expression or activity, and consequences for reproduction of teleost fish.

    Ksenia Cheshenko;Farzad Pakdel;Helmut Segner;Olivier Kah

  • Aromatase in the brain of teleost fish: expression, regulation and putative functions.

    Nicolas Diotel;Yann Le Page;Karen Mouriec;Sok-Keng Tong

  • Identification of aromatase-positive radial glial cells as progenitor cells in the ventricular layer of the forebrain in zebrafish.

    Elisabeth Pellegrini;Karen Mouriec;Isabelle Anglade;Arnaud Menuet

  • GnRH and GnRH receptors in metazoa: a historical, comparative, and evolutive perspective.

    Olivier Kah;Christèle Lethimonier;G. Somoza;L. G. Guilgur

  • Expression and estrogen-dependent regulation of the zebrafish brain aromatase gene.

    Arnaud Menuet;Elisabeth Pellegrini;François Brion;Marie-Madeleine Gueguen

  • Heterogeneity in progenitor cell subtypes in the ventricular zone of the zebrafish adult telencephalon.

    Martin März;Prisca Chapouton;Nicolas Diotel;Colette Vaillant

  • Evolutionary aspects of GnRHs, GnRH neuronal systems and GnRH receptors in teleost fish.

    Christèle Lethimonier;Thierry Madigou;José Antonio Muñoz-Cueto;Jean-Jacques Lareyre

  • Serotonin in the brain of the goldfish, Carassius auratus. An immunocytochemical study.

    Olivier Kah;Pascal Chambolle

  • Organization of Two Independent Kisspeptin Systems Derived from Evolutionary-Ancient Kiss Genes in the Brain of Zebrafish

    Arianna Servili;Yann Le Page;Jérôme Leprince;Alain Caraty

  • Analysis of the estrogen regulation of the zebrafish estrogen receptor (ER) reveals distinct effects of ERalpha, ERbeta1 and ERbeta2.

    A Menuet;Y Le Page;O Torres;L Kern

  • Screening estrogenic activities of chemicals or mixtures in vivo using transgenic (cyp19a1b-GFP) zebrafish embryos.

    François Brion;Yann Le Page;Benjamin Piccini;Olivier Cardoso

  • A reinvestigation of the Gn-RH (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone) systems in the goldfish brain using antibodies to salmon Gn-RH

    Olivier Kah;Bernard Breton;Joseph G. Dulka;Jésus Nunez-Rodriguez

  • Origin of the pituitary innervation in the goldfish.

    Isabelle Anglade;Thys Zandbergen;Olivier Kah

  • Distribution of aromatase mRNA and protein in the brain and pituitary of female rainbow trout: Comparison with estrogen receptor α

    Arnaud Menuet;Isabelle Anglade;Remy Le Guevel;Elisabeth Pellegrini

  • The reproductive brain in fish.

    Olivier Kah;Isabelle Anglade;Emmanuel Leprêtre;Pierrette Dubourg

  • Relationships between aromatase and estrogen receptors in the brain of teleost fish

    Elisabeth Pellegrini;Arnaud Menuet;Christèle Lethimonier;Fátima Adrio

  • Steroid Transport, Local Synthesis, and Signaling within the Brain: Roles in Neurogenesis, Neuroprotection, and Sexual Behaviors.

    Nicolas Diotel;Thierry D. Charlier;Christian Lefebvre d'Hellencourt;David Couret

  • A Dynamic Structural Model for Estrogen Receptor-α Activation by Ligands, Emphasizing the Role of Interactions between Distant A and E Domains

    Raphaël Métivier;Alexander Stark;Gilles Flouriot;Michael R Hübner

Frequent Co-Authors

François Brion
François Brion French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks
Farzad Pakdel
Farzad Pakdel University of Rennes
Silvia Zanuy
Silvia Zanuy Spanish National Research Council
Bon-chu Chung
Bon-chu Chung China Medical University
Gérard Tramu
Gérard Tramu University of Bordeaux
Hubert Vaudry
Hubert Vaudry University of Rouen
André Calas
André Calas University of Bordeaux
Vance L. Trudeau
Vance L. Trudeau University of Ottawa
Yonathan Zohar
Yonathan Zohar University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Richard E. Peter
Richard E. Peter University of Alberta

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