Synthetic glucocorticoids in the environment: First results on their potential impacts on fish

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2377-2383

  Kugathas, Subramaniam ^a   Sumpter, John P ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CONTROL GROUPS; DOSE-DEPENDENT; FATHEAD MINNOW; FISH POPULATIONS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; LEUCOCYTES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MAMMALIAN CELL LINES; PLASMA GLUCOSE; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SYNTHETIC GLUCOCORTICOIDS; TRANSACTIVATION;

CELL CULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DRUG PRODUCTS; FISHERIES; GLUCOSE; MAMMALS;

FISH;

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR 2; GLUCOSE; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRUG; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GLUCOSE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALMONID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; TRANSACTIVATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BECLOMETHASONE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; CYPRINIDAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; PREDNISOLONE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; TRANSFECTION; TROUT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

MAMMALIA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79953849691     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es104105e     Document Type: Article

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