Estrogenic potency of effluent from two sewage treatment works in the United Kingdom

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 932-937

  Harries, Jule E ^a   Janbakhsh, Afsaneh ^b   Jobling, Susan ^a   Matthiessen, Peter ^c   Sumpter, John P ^a   Tyler, Charles R ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Hanningfield Treatment Works   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Rainbow trout; Sewage; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAINBOW TROUT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0032972665     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620180517     Document Type: Article

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