Determination of estrogens and estrogenic activity in wastewater effluent by chemical analysis and the bioluminescent yeast assay

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 378, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-351

  Salste, Lotta ^a   Leskinen, Piia ^b   Virta, Marko ^c   Kronberg, Leif ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chromatographic fractionation; Endocrine disrupters; LC MS MS; Yeast assay

Indexed keywords

BIOLUMINESCENCE; EFFLUENTS; HORMONES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTEWATER; YEAST;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC FRACTIONATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; YEAST ASSAY;

BIOASSAY;

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL;

BIOASSAY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; WASTEWATER; YEAST;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FRACTIONATION; FREEZE DRYING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WASTE WATER; YEAST;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FREEZE DRYING; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YEASTS;

EID: 34247507786     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.02.030     Document Type: Article

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