Occurrence and spatial distribution of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the aquatic environment, their characteristics, and adopted legislations

HB Hawash, AA Moneer, AA Galhoum… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) residues are known to occur widely in
the aquatic environments of industrialized and developing countries. Considerable progress …

Endocrine disruption in aquatic systems: Up‐scaling research to address ecological consequences

FM Windsor, SJ Ormerod, CR Tyler - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Endocrine‐disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can alter biological function in organisms at
environmentally relevant concentrations and are a significant threat to aquatic biodiversity …

Estrogenic activity and ecological risk of steroids, bisphenol A and phthalates after secondary and tertiary sewage treatment processes

W Guo, J Li, M Luo, Y Mao, X Yu, M Elskens… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Effluents of sewage treatment plants (STPs) are an important source of estrogenic
substances to the receiving water bodies affecting their ecological safety. In this study …

Luminescence-sensing Tb-MOF nanozyme for the detection and degradation of estrogen endocrine disruptors

L Wang, Y Chen - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020 - ACS Publications
Using flexible structures and components of metal-organic framework (MOF) materials, we
designed and developed an artificial nanozyme with dual functions of a catalyst and …

Risks and benefits related to alimentary exposure to xenoestrogens

I Paterni, C Granchi, F Minutolo - Critical reviews in food science …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Xenoestrogens are widely diffused in the environment and in food, thus a large portion of
human population worldwide is exposed to them. Among alimentary xenoestrogens …

The impact of estrogens on aquatic organisms and methods for their determination

K Czarny, D Szczukocki, B Krawczyk… - Critical Reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Environmental contamination with substances that exert an adverse influence on the
endocrine system of living organisms has been posing a growing concern in recent years …

Estrogenic activity measurements in water using diffusive gradients in thin-film coupled with an estrogen bioassay

W Guo, K Van Langenhove, MS Denison… - Analytical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A novel type of diffusive gradients in thin-film (DGT) was combined with a chemically
activated luciferase gene expression bioassay (CALUX) to measure estrogens in aquatic …

Comparison of 17β-estradiol adsorption on corn straw-and dewatered sludge-biochar in aqueous solutions

W Guo, J Yue, Q Zhao, L Zhang, S Lu - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Removal of steroid hormones from aqueous environment is of prevailing concern because
of their adverse impact on organisms. Using biochar derived from biomass as adsorbent to …

Effect of inorganic nanoparticles on 17β-estradiol and 17α-ethynylestradiol adsorption by multi-walled carbon nanotubes

W Sun, C Zhang, N Xu, J Ni - Environmental Pollution, 2015 - Elsevier
With extensive application of diverse engineered nanoparticles (NPs), multiple NPs would
inevitably be released into the environment. However, much emphasis in most previous …

Environmental risk assessment of Polish wastewater treatment plant activity

B Kudłak, M Wieczerzak, G Yotova, S Tsakovski… - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play an extremely important role in shaping modern
society's environmental well-being and awareness, however only well operated and …