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Fish populations surviving estrogen pollution
Among the most common pollutants that enter the environment after passing municipal wastewater treatment are estrogens, especially the synthetic 17α-ethinylestradiol that is used in oral contraceptives. Estrogens are potent endocrine disruptors at concentrations frequently observed in surface waters...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921986/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24512617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-12-10 |
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| description | Among the most common pollutants that enter the environment after passing municipal wastewater treatment are estrogens, especially the synthetic 17α-ethinylestradiol that is used in oral contraceptives. Estrogens are potent endocrine disruptors at concentrations frequently observed in surface waters. However, new genetic analyses suggest that some fish populations can be self-sustaining even in heavily polluted waters. We now need to understand the basis of this tolerance. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/12/1 |
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| spelling | pubmed-39219862014-02-12 Fish populations surviving estrogen pollution Wedekind, Claus BMC Biol Commentary Among the most common pollutants that enter the environment after passing municipal wastewater treatment are estrogens, especially the synthetic 17α-ethinylestradiol that is used in oral contraceptives. Estrogens are potent endocrine disruptors at concentrations frequently observed in surface waters. However, new genetic analyses suggest that some fish populations can be self-sustaining even in heavily polluted waters. We now need to understand the basis of this tolerance. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/12/1 BioMed Central 2014-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3921986/ /pubmed/24512617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-12-10 Text en Copyright © 2014 Wedekind; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
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| title | Fish populations surviving estrogen pollution |
| title_full | Fish populations surviving estrogen pollution |
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| title_short | Fish populations surviving estrogen pollution |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921986/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24512617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-12-10 |
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