How seasonality affects the flow of estrogens and their conjugates in one of Japan's most populous catchments

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2906-2912

  Kumar, Vimal ^a   Nakada, Norihide ^a   Yamashita, Naoyuki ^a   Johnson, Andrew C ^b   Tanaka, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E2 equivalents; Estrogenicity; Free and conjugated estrogen; STPs; Yodo river

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGENS; E2-EQUIVALENTS; ESTROGENICITY; STPS; YODO RIVER;

CATCHMENTS; EFFLUENTS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN GLUCURONIDE; ESTROGEN SULFATE; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; RAIN; RIVER WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; EFFLUENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RIVER BASIN; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SAMPLING; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TRIBUTARY;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; JAPAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WINTER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ESTRONE; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; JAPAN; SEASONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; YODO RIVER;

EID: 80052339603     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.04.038     Document Type: Article

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