Effects of biologically-active chemical mixtures on fish in a wastewater-impacted urban stream

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4720-4728

  Barber, Larry B ^a   Brown, Gregory K ^a   Nettesheim, Todd G ^b   Murphy, Elizabeth W ^b   Bartell, Stephen E ^c   Schoenfuss, Heiko L ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Bioaccumulation; Chemical mixtures; Endocrine disruption; Pharmaceuticals and personal care products; Urban ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CHEMICAL MIXTURES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CRUSHED STONE PLANTS; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; FISH; FISHERIES; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); LAKES; MIXTURES; PHENOLS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POLLUTION CONTROL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; TISSUE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

4 NONYLPHENOL; 4 TERT OCTYLPHENOL; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANDROSTERONE; EDETIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESIDENCE TIME; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER POLLUTION; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BASS; CARPS; CHICAGO; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; VITELLOGENESIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHICAGO RIVER; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; ILLINOIS; LAKE MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINIDAE; MICROPTERUS;

EID: 80053331669     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.06.039     Document Type: Article

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