Ecotoxic pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and other emerging contaminants: A review of environmental, receptor-mediated, developmental, and epigenetic toxicity with discussion of proposed toxicity to humans

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 336-381

  Wilkinson, John L ^a   Hooda, Peter S ^a   Barker, James ^a   Barton, Stephen ^a   Swinden, Julian ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

care product (PPCP); prenatal; Emerging contaminant (EC); environmental toxicology; epigenetic toxicity; nonmonotonicity; pharmaceutical and personal; toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CONTAMINATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; IMPURITIES; PLASTICIZERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); SOLVENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

EMERGING CONTAMINANT; EMERGING CONTAMINANT (ECS); ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND; ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY; NON-MONOTONICITY; PERFLUORINATED COMPOUND (PFCS); PHARMACEUTICAL AND PERSONAL-CARE PRODUCT (PPCP); PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS;

TOXICITY;

AGENTS AFFECTING LIPID METABOLISM; ALKYLPHENOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PLASTICIZER; STEROID; TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; ORGANOFLUORINE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PPCP; PUBLIC HEALTH; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTAMINATION; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FISH; HEART RATE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRECIPITATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SEDIMENT;

EID: 84958914780     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2015.1096876     Document Type: Review

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