Profiles and some initial identifications of (anti)androgenic compounds in fish exposed to wastewater treatment works effluents

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1137-1143

  Hill, Elizabeth M ^a   Evans, Kerry L ^a   Horwood, Julia ^a   Rostkowski, Pawel ^a   Oladapo, Francis Olumide ^a   Gibson, Richard ^a   Shears, Janice A ^b   Tyler, Charles R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTORS; ANDROGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTAGONISTIC ACTIVITY; CHLOROMETHYL; ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS; PURE COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS; TOXICITY IDENTIFICATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS;

BODY FLUIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; FISH; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEATS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENTS;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTHRACENE; ANTIANDROGEN; DICHLOROPHEN; ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN; BIOACCUMULATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; TOXICITY TEST; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; YEAST;

ARTICLE; BILE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; FRACTIONATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; TOXICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BILE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 75749123883     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901837n     Document Type: Article

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