Wildfires are a natural landscape disturbance in many climates and forest types, but the
cumulative impact of human-caused climate change, historical fire management and …

A number of studies have indicated widespread reproductive endocrine disruption in wild
fish populations. A number of laboratory studies have been conducted to determine the …

Although computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA) outperforms manual techniques, many
investigators rely on non-automated analysis due to the high cost of commercial options. In …

In the present study male and female brown trout (Salmo trutta f. fario) were exposed to
environmentally relevant concentrations of bisphenol A (1.75, 2.40, 5.00 μgl− 1) during the …

Biomagnification profiles of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), alkylphenols, and
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the innermost part of Tokyo Bay, Japan were …

Background The regulatory evaluation of ecotoxicity studies for environmental risk and/or
hazard assessment of chemicals is often performed using the method established by …

The nuclear receptors encompass a group of regulatory proteins involved in a number of
physiological processes. The estrogen receptors (ERs), of which one alpha and one beta …

Produced water, a by-product of offshore oil production, contains significant amounts of
alkylphenols (APs). Many studies have shown that APs cause endocrine disruption in …

In this study, chronic toxicity of three endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) used to make
plastic products (ie, bisphenol A (BPA), bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and …

In vitro techniques for investigating the toxic effects of environmental contaminants (EC) on
fish spermatozoa motility kinetics and fertilizing ability are valuable tools to understand …