Production of androgens by microbial transformation of progesterone in vitro: A model for androgen production in rivers receiving paper mill effluent

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1508-1511

  Jenkins, Ronald L ^a   Wilson, Elizabeth M ^b   Angus, Robert A ^c   Howell, W Mike ^a   Kirk, Marion ^c   Moore, Ray ^c   Nance, Marione ^a   Brown, Amber ^a  

^a SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

17 hydroxyprogesterone; Androgen dependent gene expression; Androstadienedione; Androstenedione; Biotransformation of progesterone; Environmental androgens; Fenholloway River; Florida

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; PROGESTERONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PAPER INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; FISHES; FLORIDA; HERMAPHRODITISM; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PAPER; PROGESTERONE; RIVERS; STEROLS; TREES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 8744267383     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7161     Document Type: Article

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