The implementation of a battery of in vivo and in vitro bioassays to assess river water for estrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-143

  Swart, Johannes Cornelius ^a   Pool, Edmund John ^a   van Wyk, Johannes Hendrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bioassays; E SCREEN; Estrogen receptor ; Estrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTRONE; RIVER WATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOASSAY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUNTAINEERING; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; HUMANS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; TILAPIA; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EERSTE RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 78049240306     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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