An in vitro/in vivo screening assay as a sensitive tool to assess endocrine disruptive activity in surface water

Environment International

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 292-301

  Bogers, Rinus ^a   De Vries Buitenweg, Selinda ^a   Geuijen, Ine ^a   van de Waart, Beppy ^a   Kuiper, Raoul ^b   Van Der Linden, Sander ^c   Puijker, Leo ^d   Murk, Albertinka ^e   Van Der Burg, Bart ^c   Legler, Juliette ^f  

^a Notox BV   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c BIODETECTION SYSTEMS B V   (Netherlands)

^d KIWA Ltd   (Netherlands)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Estrogenic activity; Fathead minnow; Non spawning male fish assay; River waters; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FISHING VESSELS; HISTOLOGY; HORMONES; POTABLE WATER; RIVERS; RNA; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE WATERS;

BLOOD PLASMA; ESTROGENIC ACTIVITY; FISHES; GONADOSOMATIC INDEX (GSI); MINNOW; MRNA; VITELLOGENIN (VTG);

ENDOCRINOLOGY;

ETHINYLESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RIVER POLLUTION; SURFACE WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 33847363719     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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