Widespread Sexual Disruption in Wild Fish
A number of chemicals present in the environment have been shown to mimic or antagonize the actions of steroid hormones, an issue often described as "endocrine disruption/modula...
Publications
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Abstract The occurrence of hermaphrodite fish in the lagoons of sewage treatment works led us to hypothesize that sewage effluent might contain a substance, or substances, estro...
Reproductive Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Bisphenol A in the Fathead Minnow (<i>Pimephales promelas</i>)
Bisphenol A (BPA), a high-volume chemical used to make polycarbonate plastic, epoxy resins, and other chemicals has been reported to be weakly estrogenic. To investigate the eff...
Assessing the Biological Potency of Binary Mixtures of Environmental Estrogens using Vitellogenin Induction in Juvenile Rainbow Trout (<i>Oncorhynchus mykiss</i>)
Experiments were conducted to assess the in vivo potency of binary mixtures of estrogenic chemicals using plasma vitellogenin (VTG) concentrations in juvenile rainbow trout (Onc...
Nonylphenol Affects Gonadotropin Levels in the Pituitary Gland and Plasma of Female Rainbow Trout
Female rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were exposed to 4-nonylphenol (NP) at (mean measured) concentrations of 0.7, 8.3, and 85.6 micrograms/L for 18 weeks, during early ova...
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Researcher Info
- h-index
- 5
- Publications
- 5
- Citations
- 4,369
- Institution
- Brunel University of London
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- ORCID
- 0000-0003-2353-5748
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