Screening California surface waters for estrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals (EEDC) with a juvenile rainbow trout liver vitellogenin mRNA procedure

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 385, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 66-79

  de Vlaming, V ^a   Biales, A ^b   Riordan, D ^c   Markiewicz, D ^a   Holmes, R ^d   Otis, P ^e   Zander, R ^d   Lazorchak, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c Division of Environmental Services   (United States)

^d Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board   (United States)

^e North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board   (United States)

Author keywords

California surface waters; Estrogenic endocrine disruption; Rainbow trout; Vitellogenin mRNA

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINOLOGY; HORMONES; RNA; SURFACE WATERS;

CALIFORNIA SURFACE WATERS; ESTROGENIC ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; RAINBOW TROUT; VITELLOGENIN MRNA;

WATER ANALYSIS;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SURFACE WATER; VITELLOGENIN;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; JUVENILE; RNA; SALMONID; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FRESH WATER; LIVER; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 34548382553     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.06.026     Document Type: Article

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