Survey of contamination of estrogenic chemicals in Japanese and Korean coastal waters using the wild grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 660-665

  Aoki, Jun ya ^a   Nagae, Masaki ^a   Takao, Yuji ^a   Hara, Akihiko ^b   Lee, Young Don ^c   Yeo, In Kyu ^c   Lim, Bong Soo ^c   Park, Chang Beom ^a   Soyano, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Jeju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

East Asia; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Estrogen activity; Fish; Testis ova; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AREA; COASTAL WATERS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; EAST ASIA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS; ENVIRONMENTAL ESTROGENS; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGENIC CHEMICALS; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOMARKERS; BODY FLUIDS; COASTAL ZONES; FISH; MEATS;

CHEMICALS;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ESTROGEN; VITELLOGENIN;

ABNORMALITY; BIOACTIVITY; COASTAL WATER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; HISTOLOGY; MONITORING; SERUM; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FISH; JAPAN; KOREA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; KOREA; MALE; OVARY; SEAWATER; SMEGMAMORPHA; TESTIS; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANSAN; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUKUOKA [KYUSHU]; JAPAN; KOREA; KYONGGI; KYUSHU; NAGASAKI [KYUSHU]; PUSAN [PUSAN (ADS)]; PUSAN [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA; SOUTH KYONGSANG; TONGYONG;

MUGIL CEPHALUS; MUGILIDAE;

EID: 70749086965     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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