Survey of estrogenic and androgenic disruption in Swedish coastal waters by the analysis of bile fluid from perch and biomarkers in the three-spined stickleback

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1868-1880

  Pettersson, Maria ^a   Hahlbeck, Edda ^a   Katsiadaki, Ioanna ^b   Asplund, Lillemor ^a   Bengtsson, Bengt Erik ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Endocrine disruption; Fish; Pulp mill effluents; Sewage effluents

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EFFLUENTS; FISH; HORMONES;

BALTIC SEA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; PULP MILL EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS;

BIOMARKERS;

4 NONYLPHENOL; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOMARKER; COASTAL WATER; DETECTION METHOD; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FISH; INTERSEX; JUVENILE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEX RATIO; SURVEY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; NONHUMAN; PERCH; PULP MILL; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SEX RATIO; SWEDEN; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BILE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; MALE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PERCHES; PHENOLS; SEAWATER; SMEGMAMORPHA; SWEDEN; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BALTIC COAST [SWEDEN]; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; PERCA FLUVIATILIS;

EID: 36549086424     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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