On a global scale, pathogenic contamination of drinking water poses the most significant
health risk to humans, and there have been countless numbers of disease outbreaks and …

Animals have evolved inducible enzymatic defenses to facilitate the biotransformation and
elimination of toxic compounds encountered in the environment. The sensory component of …

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) have been shown to produce changes in the
endocrine system of organisms that lead to increases in cancers and abnormalities in …

Persistent organic pollutants are lipophilic, man-made chemicals that are highly resistant to
degradation. Due to their persistence, they have become distributed in small quantities …

Blood plasma samples were collected from wild bream (Abramis brama L.) in the Elbe River,
Germany, and analyzed for the yolk protein precursor vitellogenin (VTG), a biomarker for …

PURPOSE The purpose of this report is to present information on the environmental and
health hazards associated with the lifecycle of polyvinyl chloride plastic (PVC; commonly …

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor that mediates
the toxic and biological effects of a variety of chemicals. Although halogenated and …

In 1996 the US Congress charged the US Environmental Protection Agency to develop a
screening program to test chemicals for their possible estrogenic and other endocrine …

Concentrations of persistent organochlorines (OCs), such as polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs), 1 1, 1‐trichloro‐2, 2‐bis (p‐chlorophenyl) ethane (DDT) and its metabolites (DDTs) …

Concentrations of persistent organochlorines (OCs) such as polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), and …