Oestrogenic activity of a textile industrial wastewater treatment plant effluent evaluated by the E-screen test and MELN gene-reporter luciferase assay

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 432, Issue , 2012, Pages 389-395

  Schilirò, Tiziana ^a   Porfido, Arianna ^a   Spina, Federica ^a   Varese, Giovanna Cristina ^a   Gilli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

E screen; MELN; Oestrogenic activity; Ozonation; Textile; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC EXPOSURE; E-SCREEN; ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; ESTROGENIC ACTIVITIES; HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS; IN-VITRO TESTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; LIVING ORGANISMS; LUCIFERASE ASSAYS; MELN; OESTROGENIC ACTIVITY; PRE-OZONATION; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION; T-TESTS; TERTIARY TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; ENDOCRINOLOGY; GENES; OZONE; TESTING; TEXTILES; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

OZONIZATION;

ESTRADIOL;

CARCINOGEN; EFFLUENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OZONE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WASTEWATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL ASSAY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; E SCREEN TEST; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ASSAY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ITALY; MELN GENE REPORTER LUCIFERASE ASSAY; OZONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REPORTER GENE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

CELL PROLIFERATION; DISINFECTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; ITALY; LUCIFERASES; MCF-7 CELLS; SEASONS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TRANSFECTION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84863004201     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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