Reduction of estrogenic activity of municipal wastewater by aerated lagoon treatment facilities

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-83

  Bringolf, Robert B ^a   Summerfelt, Robert C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Environmental estrogens; Fish; Municipal wastewater lagoons; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; ENZYMES; SEWAGE AERATION; SEWAGE LAGOONS;

RETENTION TIMES;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ESTROGEN; VITELLOGENIN;

WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FISH; LAGOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINIFORMES; PIMEPHALES; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 0037215137     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620220110     Document Type: Article

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