Assessing the sensitivity of different life stages for sexual disruption in roach (Rutilus rutilus) exposed to effluents from wastewater treatment works

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1299-1307

  Liney, Katherine A ^a   Jobling, Susan ^b   Sheers, Jan A ^a   Simpson, Peter ^c   Tyler, Charles R ^a  

^a The Hatherly Laboratories   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Effluent; Endocrine; Fish; Wastewater treatment works

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMINIZATION; FISH; GERM CELL; HATCHING; HERMAPHRODITISM; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPAWNING; UNITED KINGDOM; VITELLOGENESIS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; RUTILUS RUTILUS;

EID: 27244449584     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7921     Document Type: Article

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