Detection of estrogenic activity in Slovenian wastewaters by bioassay

Central European Journal of Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 829-837

  Bistan, Mirjana ^a   Logar, Romana Marinšek ^b   Tišler, Tatjana ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Deconjugation; Estrogenic activity; Silica gel clean up; Solid phase extraction; Wastewaters; Yeast estrogen screen assay

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052275644     PISSN: 1895104X     EISSN: 16443632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11535-011-0064-2     Document Type: Article

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