Paracetamol, a drug with analgesic and antipyretic properties, is one of the most used
substances in human therapeutics, being also frequently detected in aquatic environments …

A solid‐phase extraction combined with a liquid chromatography‐tandem mass
spectrometry analysis has been developed and validated for the simultaneous …

Human pharmaceuticals have been shown to be entering the aquatic environment in
quantities that may produce adverse effects to aquatic organisms. This paper investigates …

Methods that can be used to check the health of fish, determine their physiological condition
and detect abnormalities at an early stage, have been attracting recent attention. The health …

The use of progestins has resulted in contamination of aquatic environments and some
progestins have in experimental studies been shown to impair reproduction in fish and …

The occurrence and spatial distribution of 40 steroids in the environmental matrices of the
Hailing Bay region, South China Sea, were investigated by rapid resolution liquid …

Synthetic progesterones and estrogens are broadly used bioactive pharmaceutical agents
and have been detected in aquatic environments. In the present study, we investigated the …

In the present study, the endocrine activity of the antiepileptic pharmaceutical
carbamazepine (CBZ) in the crustacean Daphnia magna was assessed. To assess the …

Progestins alter hormone homeostasis and may result in reproductive effects in humans and
animals. Thus far, studies in fish have focused on the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal …

Gestagen is a collective term for endogenous and synthetic progesterone receptor (PR)
ligands. In teleost fishes, 17α, 20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (DHP) and 17α, 20β, 21 …