A four-hour yeast bioassay for the direct measure of estrogenic activity in wastewater without sample extraction, concentration, or sterilization

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1422-1429

  Balsiger, Heather A ^a   de la Torre, Roberto ^a   Lee, Wen Yee ^a   Cox, Marc B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Effluent; Environmental estrogens; Estrogenic activity; Wastewater; Yeast bioassay; Yeast estrogen screen

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ESTROGENS; ESTROGENIC ACTIVITIES; ESTROGENIC ACTIVITY; YEAST BIOASSAY; YEAST ESTROGEN SCREEN;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; EXTRACTION; LIGANDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; YEAST;

BIOASSAY;

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; NONYLPHENOL;

BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; EXTRACTION METHOD; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTEWATER; YEAST;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; YEAST;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YEASTS;

EL PASO; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74449086464     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.12.027     Document Type: Article

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