Estrogenic and androgenic effects of municipal wastewater effluent on reproductive endpoint biomarkers in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus a culeatus)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1063-1071

  Björkblom, Carina ^a   Högfors, Eva ^a   Salste, Lotta ^b   Bergeljn, Eija ^c   Olsson, Per Erik ^d   Katsiadaki, Ioanna ^e   Wiklundt, Tom ^a  

^a Laboratory of Aquatic Pathobiology   (Finland)

^b Laboratory of Organic Chemistry

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethinylestradiol; Histopathology; Methyltestosterone; Spiggin; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ETHINYLESTRADIOL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; SPIGGIN; VITELLOGENIN;

AQUACULTURE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICALS; EFFLUENTS; LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MEATS; TELLURIC PROSPECTING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; STEROID; VITELLOGENIN;

ANDROGEN; BIOMARKER; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; HISTOPATHOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TELEOST; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CITIES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; MALE; OVARY; REPRODUCTION; SMEGMAMORPHA; STEROIDS; VITELLOGENINS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 67249119608     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-337.1     Document Type: Article

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