Degradation and metabolite formation of 17β-estradiol-3-sulphate in New Zealand pasture soils

Environment International

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-297

  Scherr, Frank F ^a,b   Sarmah, Ajit K ^a   Di, Hong J ^b   Cameron, Keith C ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; Arylsulphatase activity; Degradation; Estrogen sulphates; Estrone

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOMOLECULES; DEGRADATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; METABOLITES; RATE CONSTANTS; SOILS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ARYLSULPHATASE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS; ESTRONE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SULPHATES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BIOMASS; DEGRADATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INCUBATION; LIVESTOCK; METABOLITE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PASTURE;

EID: 58349113603     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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