Steroid hormone profiles of urban and tidal rivers using LC/MS/MS equipped with electrospray ionization and atmospheric pressure photoionization sources

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4132-4137

  Yamamoto, Atsushi ^a   Kakutani, Naoya ^a   Yamamoto, Kohji ^a   Kamiura, Toshikazu ^a   Miyakoda, Hidekazu ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Applied Biosystems Japan Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PHOTOIONIZATION (APPI); ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION (ESI); STEROIDAL HORMONES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS (WWTP);

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTUARIES; HORMONES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; RIVERS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTUARIES; HORMONES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; RIVERS; WATER ANALYSIS;

HORMONE; IONIZATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RIVER SYSTEM; STEROID;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ESTUARY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IONIZATION; JAPAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOIONIZATION; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; JAPAN; RIVERS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 33746724129     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es052593p     Document Type: Article

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