A theoretical estimation of the concentration of steroid estrogens in effluents released from municipal sewage treatment plants into aquatic ecosystems of central-southern Chile

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 4965-4971

  Bertin, Angéline ^a   Inostroza, Pedro A ^a   Quiñones, Renato A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Effluents; Endocrine disrupting compounds; Estrogens; Sewage

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AQUATIC SPECIES; AQUATIC SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION OF; DISCHARGE SOURCE; ECOLOGICAL PROBLEM; ENDOCRINE DISORDERS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUNDS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ESTROGENS; ETHYNYLESTRADIOL; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS; HUMAN WASTE; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PRIMARY SOURCES; RIVER SITES; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE FLOW; SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS; SOUTH AMERICA; STEROID ESTROGENS; THEORETICAL ESTIMATION; WESTERN COUNTRIES; WILLIAMS;

AQUACULTURE; CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFLUENTS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; RIVER WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CHILE; COASTAL WATERS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CHILE; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESTROGENS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

ITATA;

EID: 67649252916     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.05.032     Document Type: Article

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