Modelling defined mixtures of environmental oestrogens found in domestic animal and sewage treatment effluents using an in vitro oestrogen-mediated transcriptional activation assay (T47D-KBluc)

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 397-406

  Bermudez, Dieldrich S ^a,b   Gray, L Earl ^b   Wilson, Vickie S ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrated animal feedlot operations; In vitro mixtures; Oestrogen; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

17ALPHA ESTRADIOL; EQUILIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; MESTRANOL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FACTORIAL DESIGN; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EQUILIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ESTRONE; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEWAGE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84861427788     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: 13652605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2012.01278.x     Document Type: Article

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