Development of a sensitive E-screen assay for quantitative analysis of estrogenic activity in municipal sewage plant effluents

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 225, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 33-48

  Körner, Wolfgang ^a   Hanf, Volker ^b   Schuller, Winfried ^a   Kempter, Christoph ^c   Metzger, Jörg ^c   Hagenmaier, Hanspaul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^c Water Qual and Solid Waste M   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additivity; E screen; Estradiol equivalent concentrations; MCF 7 breast cancer cells; Sewage plant effluents; Solid phase extraction

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FULVESTRANT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BREAST CANCER; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DETERMINATION; EFFLUENT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TECHNIQUE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS;

EID: 0142022417     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00330-1     Document Type: Article

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